Errors in CPI report

Letters

AS a user of the Consumer Price Publications, I am concerned about the June quarter, 2018, report released in September.
The report had a high level of inconsistencies – meaning errors in regard to the figures published.
I have copies of previous publication on consumer price index (CPI) since the re-basing of CPI in the June quarter of 2012 until the March quarter of 2018 to compare the levels of accuracy and reliability.
I have never come across such an erroneous statistical publication where numbers are simply not adding up to the index published officially for government and public use.
Remember, the CPI is measuring the cost of living with every quarter inflation measured by this index and we deserve the facts based on sound statistical processes and procedures.
Can the NSO explain to the Government, Bank of Papua New Guinea, Treasury, Finance, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and general users like myself why such as erroneous publication was released without proper validation and edits?
Why is there a lot of inconsistency between the previous publications and this latest edition?
If the government is serious about measuring progress with facts and figures, then this is a total disgrace.

Thomson Murphy
Economist/Businessman