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  "title": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Statistics - Advanced",
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  "summary": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Statistics - Advanced Training Program Target Audience Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export-import price indexes (XMPIs).",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-23",
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    {
      "heading": "Course description and methodological scope",
      "content": "- The course, presented by the Statistics Department, deepens understanding of concepts and methods for compiling PPIs and XMPIs.\n- Coverage includes the steps of index compilation:\n  - Establishing index weights.\n  - Sampling establishments.\n  - Selecting and specifying transactions to be priced.\n  - Calculating indexes.\n  - Disseminating results.\n- The role of price indexes as deflators in the 2008 SNA is analyzed, along with principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- Emphasis on expanding coverage of the services sectors, including pricing methods for:\n  - Information and communication technology.\n  - Transportation.\n  - Distributive trade.\n  - Tourism services.\n- Technical topics covered:\n  - 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  - Compiling export-import indexes using the hybrid methodology.\n  - Expanding coverage of the services sectors.\n- The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) and XMPI (2009) manuals."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "- 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.\n- Identify suitable data sources to support the compilation of reliable XMPIs."
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    "The course, presented by the Statistics Department, deepens understanding of concepts and methods for compiling PPIs and XMPIs.",
    "Coverage includes the steps of index compilation:",
    "The role of price indexes as deflators in the 2008 SNA is analyzed, along with principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.",
    "Emphasis on expanding coverage of the services sectors, including pricing methods for:",
    "Technical topics covered:",
    "The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) and XMPI (2009) manuals.",
    "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.",
    "Identify suitable data sources to support the compilation of reliable XMPIs."
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