Fourth meeting hosted by The Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA, Washington, 22 - 24 April, 1998
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - New goods, disappearing goods and "variety increase"
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Robin Lowe -
Televisions: Quality changes and scanner data
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Mick Silver -
Bias in the Compilation of Consumer Price Indices when Different Models of an Item Coexist
paperpresentation
Session 2 - Quality adjustment including the treatment of durables
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John Astin -
Quality Adjustment in CPIs – A Personal View
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Jérôme Bascher, Thierry Lacroix -
On the use of hedonic methods in the CPI: an application to consumer durables and apparel
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Brent R. Moulton, Timothy J. LaFleur, Karin E. Moses -
Research on Improved Quality Adjustment in the CPI: The Case of Televisions
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Arja Kinnunen -
Hedonic method is practicable in CPI compilation
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Don Sellwood -
Constraining unwarranted variations in sampling and quality adjustment practices in the construction of CPI elementary aggregates
paperpresentation
Session 3 - Sampling and elementary aggregates
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Bert M. Balk -
On the Use of Unit Value Indices as Consumer Price Subindices
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Jörgen Dalén -
On the statistical objective of a Laspeyres’ price index
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Fenwick -
The Impact of Sample Design on the Performance of the Sample Geometric Mean and Related Issues
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William J. Hawkes -
The Use of Scanner Data in Reconciling Time-series (Consumer Price Index) and Geographic (Place-to-Place) Price Comparisons
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Jack E. Triplett -
Elementary Indexes for a Consumer Price Index
paperpresentation
Session 4 - Aggregation
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Rósmundur Guðnason -
Comparison of different sources for CPI weights: Consumers bar-code cash receipts vs supermarkets scanning data
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Marshall B. Reinsdorf -
Divisia Indexes and the Representative Consumer Problem
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Bohdan Schultz (Szulc) -
Effects of Using Various Macro-index Formulae in Longitudinal Price and Volume Comparisons, Canadian Empirical Studies
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Ralph Turvey -
Months versus Years
paperpresentation
Session 5 - Index purpose, definition and scope
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Luigi Biggeri -
Consumer Price Indices: Purposes and definitions, A useful general approach to the construction of the indices and some measures of the divergences between them
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Yoel Finkel, Israel Givol -
The Consumer Price Index Development Project in Israel: An Integrated Approach
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Tomohiko Sato -
Outlet Sampling Method on the 1997 National Survey of Prices
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Mariana Schkolnik, Francisco Ruiz, Gunter Hintze, Francisco Meneses, Paula Jara, Cristóbal Videla-Hintze -
The New Chilean CPI
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Helen Stott -
The CPI purpose and definition - the Australasian Debate
paperpresentation
