## Peru: Technical Assistance Report-Consumer Price Index Mission

_IMF Staff Country Reports, October 31, 2022_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 31, 2022
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- Volume: 2022
- Issue: 332
- Pages: 13
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400224836.002

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### Mission objective and scope
- Collaborated with the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics in Peru to incorporate big data methods into compilation of the consumer price index (CPI).
- Data sources incorporated:
  - Prices ingested from the websites of large retailers.
  - Data recorded through in-store checkout scanners.

### Key findings and substantive points
- The mission focused on integrating big data into CPI compilation processes to enhance data collection and processing for price statistics.
- Emphasis on two principal non-traditional data sources: web-scraped retailer prices and scanner (point-of-sale) data.

### Subject areas and keywords
- Subject: Big data, Consumer price indexes, Data collection, Data processing, Economic and financial statistics, International organization, Monetary policy, National accounts, Prices, Technology
- Keywords: Big data, consumer price index mission, Consumer price indexes, Data collection, Data processing, data provider, scanner data, staff team of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank staff

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