Producer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice

September 3, 2004

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Producer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed September 24, 2024

Summary

The producer price index (PPI) measures the rate at which the prices of producer goods and services are changing overtime. It is a key statistic for economic and business decision making and inflation monitoring. The Producer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice provides clear, up-to-date guidance on the concepts, uses, methods, and economic theory of the PPI, including information on classifications, sources, compilation techniques, and analytical uses of the PPI. The Manual supersedes the previous international guidance on PPIs (available in the Manual on Producers’ Price Indices for Industrial Goods, published by the United Nations Statistics Division in 1979). The Manual's conceptual framework derives from the System of National Accounts1993 and recent developments in index number theory. Preparation of the Manual was undertaken by the Intersecretariat Working Group on Price Statistics through a technical expert group chaired by the IMF and involving representatives from the ILO, the OECD, the UN Economic Commission for Europe, the World Bank, national statistical offices, and academic institutions.

Subject: Commodities, Deflation, Export fluctuations, Inflation, International trade, National accounts, Price indexes, Prices, Producer price indexes

Keywords: Base period, Deflation, Europe, Export fluctuations, Global, Inflation, M&G, North America, Output price index, Price change, Price indexes, Price relative, Price transaction, Producer price indexes, Value-added deflator

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688
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Manuals & Guides
Stock No:

PPIMEA
ISBN:

9781589063044
ISSN:

2663-3744

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