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  "title": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Index (PPIx)",
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  "summary": "Producer, Export, and Import Price Index Training Program Target Audience This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate producer price indexes (PPIs).",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-22",
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    {
      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 25.230\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: April 24, 2025 - August 31, 2025 (18 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Target audience: Anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate producer price indexes (PPIs)\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience\n- Technical requirements: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department and intended to provide participants a broad understanding of concepts and methods required to compile PPIs\n- Provides an overview of index compilation steps including:\n  - establishing index weights\n  - sampling establishments\n  - selecting and specifying transactions to be priced\n  - calculating indexes\n  - disseminating the results\n- Analyzes the role of price indexes as deflators in the 2008 SNA and related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation\n- Emphasizes issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors with an overview of pricing methods for:\n  - information and communication technology\n  - transportation\n  - distributive trade\n  - tourism services\n- The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Topics covered",
      "content": "- 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- expanding coverage of the services sectors"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (competencies upon completion)",
      "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"
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    "Status: Deadline passed",
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    "Primary Language: French",
    "Target audience: Anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate producer price indexes (PPIs)",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience",
    "Technical requirements: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential",
    "Presented by the Statistics Department and intended to provide participants a broad understanding of concepts and methods required to compile PPIs",
    "Provides an overview of index compilation steps including:",
    "Analyzes the role of price indexes as deflators in the 2008 SNA and related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation",
    "Emphasizes issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors with an overview of pricing methods for:",
    "The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual",
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    "Apply specific principles to develop and update index weights",
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    "Define and identify the pricing methods to be used for services activities"
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