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  "title": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Index (PPIx)",
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  "summary": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Index Training Program Producer, Export, and Import Price Index (PPIx) This course is intended to providing participants' a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required to compiling PPIs.",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-29",
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    {
      "heading": "Course purpose and scope",
      "content": "- The course is a training program intended to provide participants a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required to compile producer price indexes (PPIs).\n- Coverage includes establishing index weights, sampling establishments, selecting and specifying transactions to be priced, calculating indexes, and disseminating results.\n- The role of price indexes as deflators in the 2025 SNA is analyzed, together with related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- Emphasis on issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors, including pricing methods for information and communication technology, transportation, distributive trade, and tourism services.\n- The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Core technical topics covered",
      "content": "- Calculating elementary aggregate indexes with and without item weights.\n- Methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing items.\n- Chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures.\n- Expanding coverage of the services sectors.\n- Overview of pricing methods and identification of pricing methods to be used for services activities."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate producer price indexes (PPIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Apply specific principles to develop and update index weights.\n- Calculate price indexes based on collected prices and weights.\n- Apply methods for dealing with index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and item substitution.\n- Define and identify the pricing methods to be used for services activities."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Delivery and related IMF training offerings",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public.\n- Examples of upcoming in-person training offerings listed with language, dates, and locations:\n  - Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS) — English (French, Portuguese) | January 18-29, 2027 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius\n  - Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A) — English (Arabic) | December 13-17, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait\n  - Fiscal Sustainability (FS) — English (Arabic) | November 9-20, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\n  - Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC) — English (French, Portuguese) | November 9-13, 2026 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius\n  - Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC) — English (Arabic) | December 7-18, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"
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    "The course is a training program intended to provide participants a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required to compile producer price indexes (PPIs).",
    "Coverage includes establishing index weights, sampling establishments, selecting and specifying transactions to be priced, calculating indexes, and disseminating results.",
    "The role of price indexes as deflators in the 2025 SNA is analyzed, together with related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.",
    "Emphasis on issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors, including pricing methods for information and communication technology, transportation, distributive trade, and tourism services.",
    "The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual.",
    "Calculating elementary aggregate indexes with and without item weights.",
    "Methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing items.",
    "Chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures.",
    "Expanding coverage of the services sectors.",
    "Overview of pricing methods and identification of pricing methods to be used for services activities.",
    "Target audience: anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate producer price indexes (PPIs).",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "Apply specific principles to develop and update index weights.",
    "Calculate price indexes based on collected prices and weights.",
    "Apply methods for dealing with index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and item substitution.",
    "Define and identify the pricing methods to be used for services activities.",
    "IMF offers online training to government officials and the public.",
    "Examples of upcoming in-person training offerings listed with language, dates, and locations:"
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