The producer price indices along with consumer price index shall identify inflation rate, which reflect on the average changes in consumer and producer prices, also used to reduce the inflation in the GDP estimates at constant prices that enable economists to assess the economy in a time series.

Accordingly, the  Producer  Price  Index  (PPI)  is  one  of  the  important  indicators that provide research and economic studies by measuring the average changes in the prices received by producers for their products that are exported or sold on the domestic market. Currently, Producer Price Index covers products in all manufacturing sector, mining and quarrying, and electricity and water industries.

National Center for Statistics and Information has issued the Seventh Edition of Producer Price Index based on 2007 as the base year for both the prices and production weights, and based on an automated new system that has been established to enable workers in preparing and updating the index periodically as to the expected developments that are expected to affect this indicator.