## Producer, Export, and Import Price Index

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**Canonical URL:** [Producer, Export, and Import Price Index](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/ppixol25-243)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 25.243
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: September 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (33 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview
- 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.

### Course description and scope
- 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.

### Topics and technical content
- 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.

### Course objectives (learning outcomes)
- 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

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- [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)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2025/ppixol25-243_