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Chained division history uses December 2005=100; maintained detail uses December 2018=100. These source families are separate and are not spliced. Maintained detail and analytical aggregates retain December 2018 and November 2024 onward; intervening months are absent from the published rolling-window extract. Published rates and the current index extract can differ after source revisions; the largest observed overlap difference is 0.065 percentage point. Rates are retained as published. Retired extracts contain December 2005, December 2018 and January 2021 onward, with their own source-published gaps and truncated labels. They are preserved separately, not substituted for maintained observations. The 2016 basket weights are published as stated.
Chained division history uses December 2005=100; maintained detail uses December 2018=100. These source families are separate and are not spliced. Maintained detail and analytical aggregates retain December 2018 and November 2024 onward; intervening months are absent from the published rolling-window extract. Published rates and the current index extract can differ after source revisions; the largest observed overlap difference is 0.065 percentage point. Rates are retained as published. Retired extracts contain December 2005, December 2018 and January 2021 onward, with their own source-published gaps and truncated labels. They are preserved separately, not substituted for maintained observations. The 2016 basket weights are published as stated. Earlier-platform December-2005 anchor and December-2018 anchor both equal 100; the retired extract does not establish a continuous common scale across that gap. Sources: Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), liberia.opendataforafrica.org, Consumer Price Index. Contains information licensed under LISGIS's Open Data License Agreement (CC BY 4.0). Adapted by Living Inflation Data; no LISGIS endorsement. (as of 2026-10-24); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-08-14). Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.
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3 recorded findings for this country, shown exactly as in the full quality register.
| Country | Source | Periods | Status | Series | Found | Detected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi, Djibouti, Kosovo, Republic of, Liberia, Qatar, Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago | IMF | whole series | watching | LBR.CPI_CP10_*, BDI.CPI_CP10_*, SLB.CPI_CP08_* +6 more | 2026-09-02 | Manual |
| Found while working the base-break queue and recorded rather than checked, because measuring it did not support a rule. 109 runs across 74 series publish an index that does not change AT ALL for two years or more. Liberia's education index is exactly 100.00 for 157 consecutive months -- thirteen years -- and Burundi's is 95.00 for 98. The reason there is no check: 82 of the 109 runs are communication and education, which is exactly where administered and regulated prices sit, so a flat index in those divisions is often the correct answer rather than a placeholder. A rule firing 109 times in the two divisions where flatness is normal would be the queue crying wolf, which this file is explicit about not doing. The subset worth returning to is the 19 runs pinned at exactly 100.00: a series sitting on its base value and never leaving it is a different claim from one holding a fixed tariff. The series named here are the longest runs, so a reader of any of them is told; the other 65 series are not, which is a gap this entry does not close. | ||||||
| Liberia | IMF | 2016-01-01, 2006-01-01 | confirmed | LBR.CPI_CP04_*, LBR.CPI_CP08_* | 2026-09-02 | Possible index rebasing |
| Two Liberian dips that both come back, and both start in January. Housing reads 56.3, 56.4, 56.4 for January to March 2016 between 72.0 in December 2015 and 72.7 in April 2016 -- three months at 78% of the surrounding level, then straight back. Communication does the same shape in two months: 61.35, 61.35 in January and February 2006 between 84.77 and 79.2. A run of identical values that returns to trend is a placeholder, not a price path. Liberia is also one of the countries whose source declares 'Multiple' reference periods. The level RETURNS, which rules a base change out: a rebasing is permanent. That leaves a run of months the series recovers from -- too long for the single-month outlier rule, which needs the neighbours either side to agree, and too short to be a new base. Whether the run is bad data or a real episode is not established. | ||||||
| Liberia, St. Kitts and Nevis | IMF | whole series | confirmed | KNA.CPI_*, LBR.CPI_INDEX.M, LBR.CPI_YOY.M +2 more | 2026-09-02 | Multiple reference periods in one series |
| The IMF reports reference_period 'Multiple' for every CPI series covered here -- 13 for St Kitts and Nevis and 1 for Liberia. That is the source declaring the series is not on a single base, not something inferred here, so it is confirmed on the source's own authority. Where in the history the base changes is NOT established: no qualifying break is visible, which means either the change was small enough to pass under the shape threshold or it predates our history. | ||||||