Second meeting hosted by Statistics Sweden, Stockholm, 15 - 17 November, 1995
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - Purposes and concepts of consumer price indices
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Marta Haworth -
UK RPI: A cost of living index or an inflation indicator?
paperpresentation -
Ralph Turvey -
Three kinds of monthly CPI
paperpresentation -
Bert M. Balk -
The consumer price index and income escalation
paperpresentation -
Peter Hill -
Handbook of inflation accounting, (Chapter 5)
paperpresentation -
W. Erwin Diewert -
Seasonal commodities, high inflation and index number theory
paperpresentation -
Jörgen Dalén -
A statistical interpretation of CPI comparability
paperpresentation
Session 2 - Selected difficult areas of consumer price indices
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Kaisa Weckström-Eno -
Selected difficult areas in the Finnish CPI
paperpresentation -
Jörgen Dalén -
Swedish CPI practices for difficult areas with a noteon CPI Subindexes for services with income-dependent fees
paperpresentation -
Rosmundur Gudnason -
Note on the practices in the field of insurance, financial services and public price policies in the Icelandic CP
paperpresentation -
Lasse Sandberg -
Note on selected difficult areas of consumer price indices
paperpresentation -
N. Anders Klevmarken -
A note on Cost-of-Living Indexes, Subsidized Commodities and Income Dependent Prices
paperpresentation
Session 3 - Product Quality Adjustment to Prices
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Ralph Turvey -
Item & outlet replacements and quality adjustment
paperpresentation -
Bohdan Schultz -
Treatment of changes in product quality in consumer price indices
paperpresentation -
Robin Lowe -
The type and extent of quality change adjustments in the Canadian CPI
paperpresentation -
Anders Norberg -
Quality adjustment in the Swedish price index for clothing
paperpresentation -
Central Statistical Office, UK -
Quality Adjustment of prices of audiovisual goods in the U.K.R.P.I.
paperpresentation -
Don Sellwood -
The harmonisation of quality adjustment practices in the European Union
paperpresentation -
Eurostat B3 -
Harmonisation of consumer price indices. Progress Report
paperpresentation
Room Documents
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics -
Report from the Bureau of Labour Statistics for the House Budget Committee
paperpresentation -
Paul Armknecht, Brent Moulton -
Quality adjustment in price indices: Methods for imputing price and quality change
paperpresentation -
Brent Moulton, Karin Smedley -
A comparison of estimators for elementary aggregates of the CPI
paperpresentation -
François Lequiller, Kimberley Zieschang -
Drift in producer price indices for the former Soviet Union countries
paperpresentation -
W. Erwin Diewert -
On the stochastic approach to index numbers
paperpresentation