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1. Geographic scope of the tourism statistics

The tourism tables carry no island or Republic label, except the hotel figures, which state "Refers to hotels in the Island of Mauritius". We currently present tourist arrivals, nights, average length of stay and the hotel figures as the Island of Mauritius, and tourism earnings, Gross Value Added and employment as the Republic of Mauritius, since those three are compiled respectively by the Bank of Mauritius, the National Accounts and the Survey of Employment and Earnings. Is that reading correct? In particular, do tourist arrivals counted at the point of entry include arrivals from Rodrigues?

2. How the published inflation rates are computed

We would like to reproduce your published rates exactly rather than approximate them. Taking the all-items index on base 2017 from the Consumer Price Index historical series and computing the year-on-year change from the index as stored in the workbook, our result differs from the printed rate, at one decimal, in 15 of the 60 months. Recomputing from the index rounded to one decimal leaves 4 such months. Could you confirm from which values the published rates are calculated, the index at full precision or the index as printed, and whether any further rounding is applied?

3. The national accounts benchmark of 30 September 2026

We understand the CEA 2023 and SNA 2025 series will not be directly comparable with the earlier national accounts. Will a back-series be published on the new basis, and if so from which year? That determines whether we can present the composition of the economy over a long period or must show it in separate, labelled segments.

Reply

With reference to your mail, please find below our inputs:

Figures on tourist arrivals, nights and length of stay is for Republic of Mauritius. International arrivals from Air Austral in Rodrigues Island are already included in the figures published for tourist arrivals. Arrivals of resident of Rodrigues Island are not considered as tourists.

Statistics on hotels and occupancy rates is for Island of Mauritius only.

We have reviewed the differences identified between the published year-on-year inflation rates and those obtained by recalculating the rates from the CPI historical series. The CPI values available in the historical series are retained at full decimal precision. However, it should be noted that, following a rebasing exercise, historical CPI series are linked to the new reference base using linking factors. The resulting linked index values may therefore differ slightly, at the decimal level, from the index values on the previous base from which the year-on-year inflation rates were originally calculated.

As a general practice, inflation rates that have already been published are not revised solely as a result of a subsequent rebasing exercise. Consequently, when the CPI series is rebased and the historical indices are linked to the new reference base, previously published inflation rates are not recomputed using the newly linked index values. This may therefore give rise to small differences when attempting to reproduce historical published rates from the current rebased series.

Accordingly, for historical periods, the published year-on-year inflation rates should be regarded as the official rates compiled using the index values and calculation conventions applicable at the time of publication. They may not, in all cases, be reproduced exactly from the subsequently linked historical CPI series.

You may note that the next issue of the National Accounts report, scheduled for publication on 30th September 2026, will present revised National Accounts estimates benchmarked to the latest Census of Economic Activities 2023 (CEA 2023).

Back series data will be compiled and published within two weeks after 30 September 2026..

Hope the above clear your queries.