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  "title": "Blended Consumer Price Index - Advanced (CPI-A)",
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  "summary": "Consumer Price Index - Advanced - Blended Training Program Target Audience Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-27",
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      "heading": "Session logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: HQ 27.04\n- Location: Washington, D.C., United States\n- Date: March 8-12, 2027 (1 week) New dates\n- Delivery Method: Blended Training\n- Primary Language: English"
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      "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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and framework",
      "content": "- Purpose: Broaden participants' understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs.\n- The course provides:\n  - An overview of index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation.\n  - Coverage of sources and methods for developing/validating weights.\n  - Practical applications of methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties.\n  - Discussion of new and emerging data sources and new collection technologies.\n  - Coverage of frontier issues, including how to better measure the digital economy.\n  - Linkages to the 2025 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": "Topics and technical content 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 — expected competencies upon completion",
      "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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    "Location: Washington, D.C., United States",
    "Date: March 8-12, 2027 (1 week) New dates",
    "Delivery Method: Blended Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "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, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs.",
    "The course provides:",
    "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.",
    "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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