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  "title": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Index",
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  "summary": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Index Training Program Target Audience Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export and import price indexes (XMPIs), and users of these data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues.",
  "publishDate": "2025-05-22",
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      "heading": "Program overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 25.227\n- Deadline: Deadline passed\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English"
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs)\n  - Compilers of export and import price indexes (XMPIs)\n  - Users of these data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues\n- Qualifications:\n  - Knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The producer price index (PPI) and the export and import price index (XMPI) are complements to the consumer price index (CPI) that help draw a more complete picture of how inflation affects businesses, institutions, and households.\n- Uses of PPI and XMPI noted in the course:\n  - Deflating production and expenditure values in the national accounts\n  - Adjusting prices in long-term contracts\n  - Analyzing short-term inflation trends\n  - Performing terms of trade analysis\n- The course focuses on:\n  - Fundamentals of how PPIs and XMPIs are compiled and used\n  - Types of transactions and prices included in these indexes\n  - How prices are weighted together to create total index values reported in the news"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Explain the main uses of producer, export, and import price indexes\n- Apply specific principles to develop and update price index weights\n- Apply methods to select samples of statistical units\n- Calculate price indexes based on collected prices and weights\n- Identify suitable data sources to support the compilation of reliable export and import price indexes"
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      "heading": "Delivery and access notes",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public\n- A Google Chrome web browser is required for access"
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    "Deadline: Deadline passed",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "The producer price index (PPI) and the export and import price index (XMPI) are complements to the consumer price index (CPI) that help draw a more complete picture of how inflation affects businesses, institutions, and households.",
    "Uses of PPI and XMPI noted in the course:",
    "The course focuses on:",
    "Explain the main uses of producer, export, and import price indexes",
    "Apply specific principles to develop and update price index weights",
    "Apply methods to select samples of statistical units",
    "Calculate price indexes based on collected prices and weights",
    "Identify suitable data sources to support the compilation of reliable export and import price indexes",
    "IMF offers online training to government officials and the public",
    "A Google Chrome web browser is required for access"
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