Contributions

  • International Labour Office - Contributor
  • International Monetary Fund - Contributor
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Contributor
  • Statistical Office of the European Communities - Contributor
  • World Bank - Contributor
and 1 more
  • Great Britain. Office for National Statistics - Contributor

Publication

2009 - United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

Description

Supplements the ILO's 2004 "Consumer price index manual: theory and practice", itself being the revised version of the 1989 "Consumer price indices: an ILO manual". Gives advice to compilers of CPIs, especially in the developing world, on sampling, price collection, calculation of elementary and higher-level price indices, the treatment of seasonal products, adjustment for quality change, methods for dealing with difficult-to-measure products such as own-account consumption, second-hand goods, owner-occupied housing, telecommunications, cars, computers, etc. Appends a model checklist based on the 2003 ILO Resolution on consumer price indexes as well as a glossary of terms.

Subjects

Topics

CalculCálculoGlossaryGlosarioChecklistGlossaireCalculation

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