Practical guide to producing consumer price indices
By: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and International Labour Office (ILO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), The World Bank, Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Contributors: International Labour Office; International Monetary Fund; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Statistical Office of the European Communities; World Bank; Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Consumer price index; Data collecting; Calculation; Statistical method; Checklist; Glossary; Indice des prix à la consommation; Collecte des données; Calcul; Méthode statistique; Liste de contrôle; Glossaire; Índice de precios al consumidor; Recopilación de datos; Cálculo; Método estadístico; Lista de control; Glosario
Description: Supplements the ILO's 2004 "Consumer price index manual: theory and practice", itself being the revised version of the 1989 "Consumer price indices: an ILO manual". Gives advice to compilers of CPIs, especially in the developing world, on sampling, price collection, calculation of elementary and higher-level price indices, the treatment of seasonal products, adjustment for quality change, methods for dealing with difficult-to-measure products such as own-account consumption, second-hand goods, owner-occupied housing, telecommunications, cars, computers, etc. Appends a model checklist based on the 2003 ILO Resolution on consumer price indexes as well as a glossary of terms.
Notes: "The electronic version of the publication is available on: www.ilo.org/cpi-manuals" - back cover.

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