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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 course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate producer price indexes (PPIs).",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-24",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience: This introductory course is designed for 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.200\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Spanish"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Purpose: Provide participants a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required to compiling PPIs.\n- Coverage includes:\n  - Establishing index weights.\n  - Sampling establishments.\n  - Selecting and specifying transactions to be priced.\n  - Calculating indexes.\n  - Disseminating the results.\n- Analytical emphasis:\n  - The role of price indexes as deflators in the 2025 SNA.\n  - Principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n  - Issues related to expanding coverage of the services sectors, with emphasis on pricing methods for information and communication technology, transportation, distributive trade, and tourism services.\n- Methodological foundation: The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Topics and technical content",
      "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.\n- Practical skills: compiling index weights, collecting prices, calculating price indexes, and disseminating results."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- 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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    "Target Audience: This introductory course is 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.",
    "Session No.: OL 26.200",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: Spanish",
    "Purpose: Provide participants a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required to compiling PPIs.",
    "Coverage includes:",
    "Analytical emphasis:",
    "Methodological foundation: The course follows the principles and recommended practices in the PPI (2004) manual.",
    "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.",
    "Practical skills: compiling index weights, collecting prices, calculating price indexes, and disseminating results.",
    "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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