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  "title": "Consumer Price Index-Advanced",
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  "summary": "Consumer Price Index-Advanced Training Program Consumer Price Index-Advanced (CPI-A) This course is intended to broaden participants' understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs.",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-30",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The course is intended to broaden participants' understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs.\n- Provides an overview of index number theory and practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation.\n- Covers sources and methods for developing/validating weights; practical applications of methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties.\n- Discusses new and emerging data sources and new collection technologies.\n- Addresses frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy.\n- Highlights linkages to the 2025 SNA, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Topics Covered",
      "content": "- calculating elementary and upper-level indexes;\n- methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices;\n- introducing new outlets, items, and varieties;\n- adjusting prices for quality changes;\n- chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures; and\n- meeting data users' needs to ensure relevancy."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Apply recommended index calculation methods.\n- Apply methods for dealing with index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and keeping an index up to date.\n- Assess how well a CPI meets international guidelines for best practice."
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    "Discusses new and emerging data sources and new collection technologies.",
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    "Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
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