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  "title": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Statistics",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-20",
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      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Training Program: Producer, Export, and Import Price Statistics\n- Session No.: JV 26.36\n- Deadline: Deadline passed\n- Location: Vienna, Austria\n- Date: November 9-13, 2026 (1 week) New dates\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Russian\n- Target Audience: Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export-import price indexes (XMPIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
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      "heading": "Course description — scope and methodological focus",
      "content": "- Purpose: Deepen participants' understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling PPIs and XMPIs.\n- Overview of index compilation steps:\n  - Establishing index weights.\n  - Sampling establishments.\n  - Selecting and specifying transactions to be priced.\n  - Calculating indexes.\n  - Disseminating the results.\n- Analytical emphasis:\n  - The role of price indexes as deflators in the 2025 SNA.\n  - Related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- Coverage expansion: Issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors are emphasized, including an overview of pricing methods for:\n  - Information and communication technology services.\n  - Transportation services.\n  - Distributive trade.\n  - Tourism services.\n- Specific methodological 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- Reference frameworks followed: The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) and XMPI (2009) manuals."
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      "heading": "Course objectives and practical competencies",
      "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.\n  - Identify suitable data sources to support the compilation of reliable XMPIs."
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    "Date: November 9-13, 2026 (1 week) New dates",
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    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: Russian",
    "Target Audience: Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export-import price indexes (XMPIs).",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "Purpose: Deepen participants' understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling PPIs and XMPIs.",
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    "Coverage expansion: Issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors are emphasized, including an overview of pricing methods for:",
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    "Reference frameworks followed: The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) and XMPI (2009) manuals.",
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