Producer, Export, and Import Price Index

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Title: Producer, Export, and Import Price Index (PPIx)
Session No.: OL 25.243
Location: Course conducted online
Date: September 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (33 weeks)
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: French
Deadline: Deadline passed
Target Audience: Introductory course designed for 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.

Purpose: Provide participants a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required to compiling PPIs.
Coverage:
- Overview of steps of index compilation including establishing index weights, sampling establishments, selecting and specifying transactions to be priced, calculating indexes, and disseminating the results.
- Analysis of the role of price indexes as deflators in the 2025 SNA and related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.
- Emphasis on issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors, with an overview of pricing methods for information and communication technology, transportation, distributive trade, and tourism services.
Methodological foundation: The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual.

Elementary and aggregation methods:
- Calculating elementary aggregate indexes with and without item weights.
- Chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures.
Missing items and index maintenance:
- Methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing items.
- Methods for expanding coverage of the services sectors.
Price collection and index calculation:
- Establishing index weights.
- Sampling establishments.
- Selecting and specifying transactions to be priced.
- Calculating price indexes.
- Disseminating the results.
Service pricing:
- Define and identify the pricing methods to be used for services activities, including information and communication technology, transportation, distributive trade, and tourism services.

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.