## Online: Producer Price Index

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Online: Producer Price Index](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/ppixol26-185)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 26.185
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Apply online by April 1, 2027 Deadline extended

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### Training program and delivery
- Session No.: OL 26.185
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks) New dates
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export and import price indexes (XMPIs), and 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 important complements to the consumer price index (CPI) in drawing a more complete picture of how inflation affects major parts of an economy, including businesses and institutions, in addition to households.
- These indexes are used to:
  - deflate production and expenditure values in the national accounts,
  - adjust prices in long-term contracts,
  - analyze short-term inflation trends,
  - perform terms of trade analysis.
- The Producer, Export, and Import Price Index course (PPIx) covers:
  - fundamentals of how these statistics are compiled and used,
  - types of transactions and prices included in these indexes,
  - how prices are weighted together to create total index values.

### 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.

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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Apply Now](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=OL26.185E)
- [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)
- [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/2026/ppixol26-185_