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  "title": "Virtual : Consumer Price Index-Advanced (CPI-A)",
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  "summary": "Virtual : Consumer Price Index-Advanced Training Program Target Audience Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program and target audience",
      "content": "- Training Program: Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Purpose: Broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs.\n- Emphases:\n  - Overview of index number theory and its practical implications for choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation.\n  - Sources and methods for developing weights and sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties.\n  - Discussion of new and emerging data sources and new collection technologies.\n  - Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy.\n  - Linkages to the 2008 SNA, including related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- Methodological alignment: The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course 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."
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    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Apply recommended index calculation methods.\n- Apply methods for dealing with such 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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    "Training Program: Presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "Purpose: Broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs.",
    "Emphases:",
    "Methodological alignment: The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).",
    "calculating elementary and upper-level indexes;",
    "methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices;",
    "introducing new outlets, items, and varieties;",
    "adjusting prices for quality changes;",
    "chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures; and",
    "meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy.",
    "Apply recommended index calculation methods.",
    "Apply methods for dealing with such index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and keeping an index up to date.",
    "Assess how well a CPI meets international guidelines for best practice."
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