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  "title": "Consumer Price Index-Advanced",
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  "summary": "Consumer Price Index-Advanced Training Program Target Audience Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-09",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "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.\n- Session No.: CE 24.27\n- Deadline passed\n- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\n- Date: November 4-15, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Arabic"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and emphasis",
      "content": "- Intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs.\n- Explores in greater detail concepts and methods introduced in the online CPIx to address actual compilation issues faced by participants.\n- Provides an overview of index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation.\n- Covers sources and methods for developing/validating weights, and practical applications of methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties.\n- Discusses new and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies.\n- Includes frontier issues, including how to better measure the digital economy.\n- Highlights linkages to the 2008 SNA, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- 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.\n- Meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — learning outcomes",
      "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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    "Target audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "Session No.: CE 24.27",
    "Deadline passed",
    "Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    "Date: November 4-15, 2024 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: Arabic",
    "Intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs.",
    "Explores in greater detail concepts and methods introduced in the online CPIx to address actual compilation issues faced by participants.",
    "Provides an overview of index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation.",
    "Covers sources and methods for developing/validating weights, and practical applications of methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties.",
    "Discusses new and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies.",
    "Includes frontier issues, including how to better measure the digital economy.",
    "Highlights linkages to the 2008 SNA, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.",
    "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.",
    "Meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy.",
    "Apply recommended index calculation methods.",
    "Apply methods for dealing with 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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