## Producer, Export, and Import Price Index (PPIx)

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**Canonical URL:** [Producer, Export, and Import Price Index (PPIx)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/ppixol25-230)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.230
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: April 24, 2025 - August 31, 2025 (18 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview and logistics
- Session No.: OL 25.230
- Status: Deadline passed
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: April 24, 2025 - August 31, 2025 (18 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- 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

### Course description and scope
- 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:
  - establishing index weights
  - sampling establishments
  - selecting and specifying transactions to be priced
  - calculating indexes
  - disseminating the results
- 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:
  - information and communication technology
  - transportation
  - distributive trade
  - tourism services
- The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual

### Topics covered
- calculating elementary aggregate indexes with and without item weights
- methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing items
- chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures
- expanding coverage of the services sectors

### Course objectives (competencies upon completion)
- Apply specific principles to develop and update index weights
- Calculate price indexes based on collected prices and weights
- Apply methods for dealing with index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and item substitution
- Define and identify the pricing methods to be used for services activities

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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/ppixol25-230_