Eighteenth meeting hosted by Statistics Canada and Bank of Canada, Ottawa, 13-15 May 2024, Ottawa, 13-15 May 2024
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Session 1 - Alternate data sources and index number formulas I
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Kevin Fox, Peter Levell, Martin O’Connell, Erwin Diewert -
Inflation measurement with high frequency data
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Jacek Białek -
Evolution of the GEKS index
paper presentation
Session 2 - Alternate data sources and index number formulas II
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Gregory Kurtzon -
Combining Hedonic with Multilateral Indexes for Turnover and Chain Drift in Transactions Data Consumer Price Indexes
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Ludwig von Auer, Sebastian Weinand -
Multilateral Approaches in Inflation Measurement: Why Does the TPD Method Fail Us and Can We Do Something About It?
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Adam Tardos -
The choice between bilateral and multilateral index for scanner data: Case study on Austrian grocery scanner data 2022-2023
paper presentation
Session 3 - Alternate data sources, quality adjustment methods and index number formulas
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Erwin Diewert, Chihiro Shimizu -
Product Churn and Quality Adjustment: Using Scanner data of Laptop in Japan
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Tom Arend, Jarmila Botev, Emmanuelle Guidetti, Annabelle Mourougane, Minsu Park -
Seasonal adjustment of CPIs during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: main insights from NSO experience
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Botir Radjabov, Lucien May, Yu-Lin Huang, Claude Lamboray -
A practical implementation of Machine Learning Methods for Price Imputation
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Mario Spina, Liam Greenhough -
Outlier detection for grocery scanner data in Consumer Price Statistics
paper presentation
Session 4 - Index number theory and practice
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Jan de Haan, Frances Krsinich -
Product Churn and the GEKS-Törnqvist Price Index: The "Feenstra Adjustment"
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Olivia Ståhl -
Higher-Level Aggregation with Long-Term Links - An Application to the Swedish CPI
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Yuri Dikhanov -
A new elementary index – the equal share counterpart of the Walsh index
paper presentation
Session 5 - Challenging areas of price measurement and update by UN scanner data task team
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Tanya Flower, Serge Goussev, Federico Polidoro -
UN Task Team on Scanner Data - 2024 Update
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Pavel Belchev -
A framework for the games of chance index calculation in the HICP
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Bernhard Goldhammer -
A measure for the similarity of time series
paper presentation
Session 6 - Price statistics that meet multiple user needs
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Corinne Becker -
Is it still possible to publish a single consumer price index that satisfies all needs?
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Naohito Abe, Noriko Inakura -
Reevaluating Household Real Consumption through Attribute-Specific Price Indices and Actual Consumption
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Thomas A. Knetsch, Dilyana Popova, Patrick Schwind -
HICP and national CPI in Germany – as similar as possible, as different as needed
paper presentation
Session 7 - Analytical or complementary measures of inflation
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Leigh Merrington -
Beyond the CPI: Producing analytical measures of inflation using outputs from the CPI
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Alan Bentley, Karsten Chipeniuk, Frances Krsinich -
Online price data, high frequency inflation measures, and formulation of monetary policy in New Zealand
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Luigi Palumbo, Tiziana Laureti -
Finding the Goldilocks data collection frequency for the Consumer Price Index
paper presentation
Session 8 - Alternate data sources and index number formulas III
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William Spackman, Serge Goussev, Mackenzie Wall, Greg DeVilliers, David Chiumera -
Machine Learning is (not!) all you need: Impact of classification-induced error on price indices using scanner data
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Joseph Waihenya, Maria Rosario Reyes, Clément Yélou -
A new approach for integrating transaction data in the cellular services price index (CSPI)
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Alessandro Brunetti, Tiziana Laureti, Federico Polidoro -
Estimating shrinkflation in the traditional data collection and by using scanner data
paper presentation
Session 9 - Treatment of housing in the CPI
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Ken Van Loon -
Evaluating different index methods for short-term rentals
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Ning Huang, Yang Wang -
Measuring Rental Price Changes for Prospective Tenants Using Rental Listings Microdata
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Ben Hillman, Tony Liu -
Modelled rental prices and their effect on price indices
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Corinne Becker, Muriel Mundwiler -
Using electronic data for the rent index: child's play?
paper presentation
Workshop on use of alternative data sources for CPI. UN Task Team on Scanner Data
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Serge Goussev -
Classiciation of alternative data sources
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Tanya Flower -
Handbook in utilising new data sources in the production of consumer price statistics (I)
paperpresentation -
Federico Polidoro -
Handbook in utilising new data sources in the production of consumer price statistics (II)
paperpresentation
Poster session
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Adrien Montbroussou -
Classification of scanner data into COICOP: a machine learning approach
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Can Tongur -
Currency effects in the Danish and Swedish inflation
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D'Amore Antonietta, Ribaldi Francesca, Santangelo Francesco -
Motor Vehicles Insurance Price Index: New Source of Data and Methodological Innovation in the Italian Experience
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Hugo de Bondt, Rob van de Laar, Jacco Daalmans, Koen Link, Florin Barb, Joline Brouwer -
Introducing contract based energy prices in the Netherlands
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Jacek Białek, Anna Bobel, Dagmara Oprych – Frankow -
Immeasurability of shrinkflation in the CPI?
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Kristiina Nieminen -
The Pyramid of Decisions -- Construction of Bilateral Index Using Alternative New Data Sources
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Naohito Abe, Noriko Inakura, DS Prasada Rao, Akiyuki Tonogi -
On the aggregation of price changes with product turn over
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Rejoyce Lentswe Mbalekelwa -
Treatment of housing in the CPI including rent, owner-occupied housing and utilities
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Toshihiko Akatani, Shuhei Miyake -
The creation of the "Charges for package tours to overseas" index in Japan’s CPI after the COVID-19 pandemic
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Consumer Prices Division - Statistics Canada -
The rapid and accelerating modernization of the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) program
paperpresentation
Panel discussion on the state of research and practice of CPI methodology and challenges ahead
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David Fenwick -
The role of the Ottawa Group in supporting the development of sound methodologies in the construction of consumer price indices: a look back at the past 30 years and a look forward to the future challenges in measuring inflation and the implications for the research agenda: a background note
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Erwin Diewert -
The Ottawa Group After 30 Years
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