Consumer Price Index (monthly)

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire for the purpose of consumption. Compiled monthly by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) with base year 2014 (2014=100), the dataset covers overall inflation and sub-indices for food and non-alcoholic beverages, housing, water, electricity, gas, transport, and other major categories. The series spans January 2009 to the present.

SCHEMA · 3 columns

COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
date	date	First day of reference month	-
category	string	CPI category (overall, food, housing, transport, …)	-
value	float64	Index value (base year 2014=100)	index

ACCESS

import imibare as imi

df = imi.load("rw.nisr.cpi.monthly")
print(df.head())

import duckdb

duckdb.sql("""
    ATTACH 'https://catalog.cloudflarestorage.com/imibare-data'
    AS imi (TYPE ICEBERG, READ_ONLY)
""")

duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM imi.rw_nisr_cpi_monthly LIMIT 10").show()

curl -L "https://api.imibare.org/v1/data/rw.nisr.cpi.monthly/download" \
  -o "rw.nisr.cpi.monthly.parquet"

# List all datasets
curl "https://api.imibare.org/v1/datasets"

# Get metadata for this dataset
curl "https://api.imibare.org/v1/datasets/rw.nisr.cpi.monthly"