## Producer, Export, and Import Price Index

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Producer, Export, and Import Price Index](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/ppixol25-227)

## Other formats

- [Markdown version](/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/ppixol25-227/index.md)
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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.227
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview
- Session No.: OL 25.227
- 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 and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs)
  - Compilers of export and import price indexes (XMPIs)
  - Users of these data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues
- Qualifications:
  - Knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful
  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential

### Course description
- 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:
  - Deflating production and expenditure values in the national accounts
  - Adjusting prices in long-term contracts
  - Analyzing short-term inflation trends
  - Performing terms of trade analysis
- The course focuses on:
  - Fundamentals of how PPIs and XMPIs are compiled and used
  - Types of transactions and prices included in these indexes
  - How prices are weighted together to create total index values reported in the news

### Course objectives
- 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

### Delivery and access notes
- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public
- A Google Chrome web browser is required for access

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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/ppixol25-227_