The government has started a consultation process in order to define an updated measurement system for national data, governed by an independent body.
From a press release by the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador:
The Minister of Economy, Armando Flores, the Technical Secretary of the Presidency, Alexander Segovia and the representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in El Salvador, Rodrigo Parot, inaugurated a forum on a new statistics system which the Government of El Salvador wishes to implement. The two-day event will include the participation of experts in the field, from Mexico, Chile and Peru.
In September, prices fell by 0.16%, according to the National Institute of Statistics.
According to a report by Aldesa :
On a cumulative basis, consumer prices have risen by 3.23% so far this year. Food, clothing and transportation were the items that contributed the most to the lower figures seen in the index for September.
So far this year the item that has seen the largest increase continues to be transportation with 8.43%.However, considering the precipitous decline in oil prices worldwide and poor global economic growth expectations, we do not foresee, in the absence of geopolitical conflicts, an escalation in fuel prices of the same magnitude as that observed in the first quarter of this year.