Consumer price index manual : theory and practice.
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| Imprint: | Geneva : International Labour Office, 2004. |
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| Description: | xxxi, 535 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5636934 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. An introduction to consumer price index methodology
- 2. Uses of consumer price indices
- 3. Concepts and stope
- 4. Expenditure weights and their sources
- 5. Sampling
- 6. Price collection
- 7. Adjusting for quality change
- 8. Item substitution, sample space and new products
- 9. Calculating consumer price indices in practice
- 10. Some special cases
- 11. Errors and bias
- 12. Organization and management
- 13. Publication, dissemination and user relations
- 14. The system of price statistics
- 15. Basic index number theory
- 16. The axiomatic and stochastic approaches to index number theory
- 17. The economic approach to index number theory : the single-household case
- 18. The economic approach to index number theory : the many-household case
- 19. Price indices using an artificial data set
- 20. Elementary indices
- 21. Quality change and hedonics
- 22. The treatment of seasonal products
- 23. Durables and user costs
- Annex 1. Harmonized indices of consumer prices (European Union)
- Annex 2. Classification of individual consumption according to purpose (COICOP)-extract
- Annex 3. Resolution concerning consumer price indices adopted by the Seventeenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, 2003
- Annex 4. Spatial comparisons of consumer prices, purchasing power parities and the international comparison program.