Ninth meeting hosted by Office for National Statistics, UK, London, 14 - 16 May, 2006
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - Families of indices
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Christine Wirtz, Mariagnese Branchi -
Family of indices - estimating the impact of government measures on the HICP for the euro area and the EU
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Peter Hill -
Household production, consumption and CPIs
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Matthew Powell -
Applying the index family concept in practice - tracing price changes through the retail sector
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Carsten Hansen -
Price updating of weights in the CPI
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Walter Lane, Mary Lynn Schmidt -
Comparing inflation between United states and Europe using the methods of the European Union’s Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
paperpresentation
Session 2 - Housing costs
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Keith Woolford (presented by Merry Branson) -
An exploration of alternative treatments of owner-occupied housing in a CPI
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Anders Klevmarken -
Towards an applicable true cost-of-living index that incorporates housing
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Timo Koskimaki -
Options for the organisation of rent surveys
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Marc Prud’homme, Andrew Baldwin, Alice Nakamura -
An empirical analysis of the different concepts for owned accommodation in the Canadian CPI: The case of Ottawa, 1996-2005
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Makoto Shimizu -
Review of the prices of rents and owner-occupied houses in Japan
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Rosmundur Guðnason -
Market prices, house price indices and flow of services methods
paperpresentation
Session 3 - Services
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Corinne Becker -
Recent developments in the Swiss CPI - Scanner data, telecommunications and health price collection
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Alexandra Beisteiner -
Measuring prices for telecommunication services in Austria
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Dennis Fixler -
Financial service prices - discusses the incorporation of financial services into a CPI
paperpresentation
Session 4 - Healthcare
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Grietje van Haren, Foske Kleima, Jan de Haan -
The CPI and the new Dutch Health Care System
paperpresentation
Session 5 - Measuring quality change
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Stefan Linz -
Hardware, software, network effects - what's the price for using computers?
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Kari Manninen -
Hedonic regressions - a transaction economy
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Peter Moran -
Applying hedonics in practice: Analysis of US and UK methods for Flat Panel Televisions
paperpresentation
Session 6 - Measuring the statistical quality of indices
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David Fenwick -
Real world quality measures
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Mick Silver -
Why elementary price index number formulas differ - price dispersion and product heterogeneity
paperpresentation
Session 7 - Other issues
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Jörgen Dalén -
Spatial price comparisons in poverty measurement
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Yoel Finkel -
CPI - Measuring across households
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Bert Balk -
Measuring and decomposing rates of inflation derived from annually chained Lowe Indices
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Wendy Wusan Xi -
Vector based price index
paperpresentation
