Main Economic Indicators
Subtitle: Comparative Methodological Analysis: Consumer and Producer Price Indices Volume 2002 Supplement 2
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9789264175778
Subjects: Economics
Description: This publication compares key aspects of statistical methodologies used by OECD member countries in the compilation of price indicators. It focuses on data comparability in the context of international statistical guidelines and recommendations published by the OECD and other international agencies. This publication complements two other OECD publications, Main Economic Indicators (MEI), and Main Economic Indicators: Sources and Definitions.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: -Necessity for Metadata in Interpreting Data; title: Aim of this Publication; title: International Guidelines for Short-Term Economic Indicators; title: Statistical Methodological Information for Internatioanal Comparisons; title: Target Indicators for Main Economic Indicators; title: Target Definitions for MEI Target Indicators; title: Collection of Methodological Information for this Publication; title: Conclusions; title: Feedback on Contents; title: 2. Consumer Prices; title: -Introduction; title: CPI Indicators in the MEI; title: Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices - HICPs; title: Measuring Underlying Inflation in MEI; title: Zone Estimates of CPI in the MEI; title: Frequency of Consumer Price Indices; title: International Guidelines and Recommendations; title: Access to Detailed Methodological Information; title: Scope/Coverage; title: Reference Population; title: Types of Expenditures and Transactions Covered; title: Basic Data; title: Weighting Data; title: Frequency of Revising/Updating Weights; title: Item Selection; title: Outlet Selection; title: Price Collection Methods; title: Item/Product Specification; title: Index Calculation; title: Computation of Lowest Level Indices (Elementary Aggregation); title: Index Aggregation; title: Alignment of Expenditure and Price Reference Base; title: Chaining Re-Weighted Indices; title: CPI Problem Areas; title: Missing Prices; title: Seasonal Items; title: Quality Changes; title: Treatment of Rent and Home Ownership; title: What is Being Consumed?; title: Which Measurement Approach (User-Cost, Acquisitions, or Payments) is Appropriate?; title: Owner-Occupied Housing in OECD Member Countries; title: Should Expenditure Weights, and thus Prices, Be Imputed in CPIs?; title: Should Interest be Included in CPIs?; title: Rented Housing; title: 3. Producer Prices; title: -Introduction; title: PPI Indicators in the MEI; title: Access to Detailed Methodological Information; title: International Guidelines and Recommendations; title: Scope/Coverage; title: Basic Data; title: Index Calculation; title: Problem Areas