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  "title": "Virtual : Consumer Price Index",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Training Program",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training.\n- Primary Language: English.\n- Session No.: SA 22.14 V.\n- Location: New Delhi, India.\n- Date: April 25-29, 2022 (1 week).\n- Deadline passed."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Purpose: To broaden participants' understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs.\n- Key emphases:\n  - Sources and methods for developing weights and sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties.\n  - New and emerging data sources and new collection technologies.\n  - Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy.\n  - Linkages to the 2008 SNA, including principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Topics",
      "content": "- calculating elementary and upper-level indexes;\n- methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices;\n- introducing new outlets, items, and varieties;\n- quality adjustments;\n- chaining and linking indexes; and\n- meeting data users' needs to ensure relevancy."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Apply recommended index calculation methods.\n- Apply methods for dealing with such index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and keeping an index up to date.\n- Assess how well a CPI meets international guidelines for best practice."
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    "Delivery Method: Virtual Training.",
    "Primary Language: English.",
    "Session No.: SA 22.14 V.",
    "Location: New Delhi, India.",
    "Date: April 25-29, 2022 (1 week).",
    "Deadline passed.",
    "Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; or equivalent experience.",
    "Purpose: To broaden participants' understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs.",
    "Key emphases:",
    "The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).",
    "calculating elementary and upper-level indexes;",
    "methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices;",
    "introducing new outlets, items, and varieties;",
    "quality adjustments;",
    "chaining and linking indexes; and",
    "meeting data users' needs to ensure relevancy.",
    "Apply recommended index calculation methods.",
    "Apply methods for dealing with such index compilation challenges such as unavailable items, quality change, and keeping an index up to date.",
    "Assess how well a CPI meets international guidelines for best practice."
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