Under the patronage of his Excellency Mr. Ibrahim bin Mohammad Al-Homaizi, the GM of consumer price index directorate, the General Authority for statistics (GAS) inaugurated a workshop to review and\u00a0discuss the evaluation results of deploying the handheld mobile computers in collecting prices from the retail stores and business establishments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) directorate has successfully finished the testing phase of a mobile software application supplied by MobiSoft to automate the price collection process.<\/p>\n
The CPI and IT departments presented their experience with the system during the trial period and expressed their satisfaction with the outcomes.<\/p>\n
So, GAS will replace their current way of collecting the price information on papers with the new electronic system starting from Jan. 2016.<\/p>\n
MobiSoft\u2019s CPI application is an Android based software package that can integrate with the CPI database at a certain data centre and load the required work assignments into a local device. The assignments are work orders for the surveyors to collect the prices and other relevant information for the products and services from specific retail stores according to a pre-set surveying plan, the collected data is then transferred over a wireless network back to the database for further validation, reviewing and processing to compile the CPI and inflation indicators.<\/p>\n
The CPI application also involves integration with the Global Positioning System\u00a0(GPS) in a way that captures the GPS data and save them into the CPI database.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, it checks and validates the surveyor\u2019s location to ensure that data collection takes place only while being present in the intended establishment.<\/p>\n
In addition to KSA, MobiSoft CPI software is currently used by national statistical offices in Oman, Jordan and Iraq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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