EghtesadOnline: The bigger share of durable goods (automobiles, household goods, etc.) in the consumer basket of high-income deciles is one of the reasons behind the inflation gap between income deciles, Javad Hosseinzadeh , the head of the Statistical Center of Iran, said.

EghtesadOnline: Iran's economic growth, excluding oil, reached 7% during a one-year period from spring 2016 to spring 2017, according to a senior official with Statistical Center of Iran.

EghtesadOnline: A traditional Population and Housing Census in 2021-22, held with numerous enumerators collecting field data would cost an estimated 4,200 billion rials ($24.27 million), whereas the register-based approach could significantly reduce the cost of census, Javad Hosseinzadeh , the head of the Statistical Center of Iran, said.