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  "title": "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": "2025-08-21",
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      "heading": "Training Program Overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 25.04\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: January 13-17, 2025 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience."
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    {
      "heading": "Course Description and Scope",
      "content": "- Presented by: Statistics Department.\n- Purpose: To broaden participants' understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs.\n- Emphasis areas:\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 the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.\n- The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Topics Covered",
      "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."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives (Learning Outcomes)",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Apply recommended index calculation methods.\n- Apply methods for dealing with 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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    "Location: New Delhi, India",
    "Date: January 13-17, 2025 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.",
    "Presented by: Statistics Department.",
    "Purpose: To broaden participants' understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs.",
    "Emphasis areas:",
    "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 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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