Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice
August 25, 2004
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The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. It is a key statistic for economic and social policymaking and has substantial and wide-ranging implications for governments, businesses, and households. This important and comprehensive Manual provides guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing CPIs, and explains in-depth the methods that are used to calculate a CPI. It also examines the underlying economic and statistical concepts and principles needed for making choices in efficient and cost-effective ways, and for appreciating the full implications of those choices.
Subject: Commodities, Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Cost of living, Expenditure, National accounts, Price indexes, Prices
Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Cost of living, Europe, expenditure share, Global, M&G, Middle East, North America, Northern Europe, price change, price collection, price collector, Price indexes, reference period, Western Europe
Pages:
572
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Manuals & Guides
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CPIMEA
ISBN:
9789221136996
ISSN:
2663-3744
