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Joint UNECE/ILO meeting on Consumer Price Indices

10 - 12 May 2010
Palais des Nations, Geneva Switzerland

 

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Privisional agenda
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26 Jul.10
   
Report of the meeting
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26 Jul.10
   

Workshop 1: The use of scanner data
 
Agenda for the scanner data workshop
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26 Apr.10
   
Introduction to the workshop on scanner data.
Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands

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19 Apr.10
   
An overview of issues on scanner data.
Ragnhild Nygaard (Statistics Norway) and Heymerik van der Grient (Statistics Netherlands)

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19 Apr.10
   
The use of supermarket scanner data in the Dutch CPI.
Heymerik van der Grient and Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands

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19 Apr.10
   
Chain Drift in a Monthly Chained Superlative Price Index
Ragnhild Nygaard, Statistics Norway

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3 May 10
   
Eliminating chain drift in Price Indexes based on scanner data.
Jan de Haan and Heymerik van der Grient, Statistics Netherlands

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3 May 10
   
Notes on scanner data & price collection in the Swedish consumer price index.
Anders Norberg and Muhanad Sammar, Statistics Sweden

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3 May 10
   
Scanner data in the Swiss CPI. An alternative to price collection in the field.
Reto Müller, Swiss Federal Statistical Office

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4 May 10
   

Workshop 2: Financial Services in the Consumer Price Indices (CPI)
 
Programme for Financial Services workshop
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6 May 10
   
Recent Australian experiences measuring the price of indirect banking services .
Jessica Zhang, Michael Abbondante, Stephen Frost and Susan Kluth, Australian Bureau of Statistics

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29 Apr.10
   
FISIM Developments in the National Accounts and implications for the CPI.
Kim Zieschang, IMF

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17 May 10
   
The CPI and HICP - Some weighting issues.
Tom Andersen Langer, Statistics Norway

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18 May 10
   

Workshop 3: Quality adjustment and seasonal products, clothing and food
 
Different approaches to the treatment of seasonal products: test on the Israeli CPI
Yoel Finkel, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel

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13 Apr.10
   
Special cases, seasonal products
Yoel Finkel, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel

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13 Apr.10
   
The impact of European Commission Regulation on the treatment of seasonality in the HICP for Italian clothing.
Monica Montella and Franco Mostacci, Italian Statistical Office

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3 May 10
   
Quality adjustment: a review of some methods with examples from clothing.
Marc Prud'Homme, Statistics Canada

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3 May 10
   

Workshop 4: The Harmonised Consumer Price Index (HICP)
 
Programme for HICP workshop
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6 May 10
   
Session 1 – Background to the development of HICPs, Eurostat
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6 May 10
   
Session 2 – The role of Eurostat and the role of the National Statistical Institutes (NSIs), Eurostat
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6 May 10
   
Session 3 – HICP Methodology, Eurostat
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6 May 10
   
Session 4 – Recent HICP developments and unfinished business, Eurostat
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6 May 10
   
Session 5 - The ECB as user of the HICP
Adrian Page, European Central Bank

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6 May 10
   
Session 5 – Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices (HICPs) – viewpoint of a National Statistical Institute
Mauro Politi, National Institute of Statistics, Italy

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6 May 10
   
Session 6 - Calculating a proxy-HICP, Eurostat
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6 May 10
   
Methodological issues
Plans for developing disease based price indexes in the U.S.
Michael W. Horrigan, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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17 May 10
   
Impact of Incentives to Traders on Price Data Collection.
Nicholas Nsowah Nuamah, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research and Edward Asuo Afram, Ghana Statistical Service

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12 May 10
   
Reflecting consumer's e-commerce change in the CPI.
Kyunghee Kim, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT)

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30 Apr.10

House prices indices

The Decomposition of a House Price index into Land and Structures Components: A Hedonic Regression Approach
W. Erwin Diewert, Jan de Haan and Rens Hendriks, Canada

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12 May 10
   
Methodological recommendations for house price indices
Federal State Statistics Service, Russian Federation

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28 Apr.10

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28 Apr.10

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28 Apr.10
Challenges in compiling a National House Price Index for Ireland.
Niall O’Hanlon, Central Statistics Office, Ireland

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6 May 10
   
House Price measurement in New Zealand and Australia.
Mark Dubner and Frances Krsinich , Statistics New Zealand

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12 May 10
   
Housing and the HICP – It’s all about compromise.
Matt Berger, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom

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12 May 10
   
On the evolution of the House Price Distribution.
Takaaki Ohnishi, Takayuki Mizuno, Chihiro Shimizu and Tsutomu Watanabe, Japan

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22 Apr.10
   
An empirical analysis of the different concepts for owned accommodation in the Canadian CPI: The case of Ottawa, 1996-2005.
Andy Baldwin, Alice Nakamura and Marc PrudHomme, Canada

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7 May 10
   
Housing in the CPI: The South African Experience and Concerns.
Lee Everts, Patrick Kelly, Kgotsofaso Phaswana and Riaan Grobler, Statistics South Africa

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12 May 10
   
Residential Property Price Indices (RPPI) Handbook
The RPPI Handbook Project
Bert M. Balk, Statistics Netherlands

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7 Jun.10
   
Handbook on Residential Property price Indices. Chapter 5: Methods
Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands

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7 Jun.10
   
The draft chapters of the RPPI Handbook are available from Eurostat's website:
epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/hicp/methodology/residential_property_price_indices
     
System of price indices
Revising the Consumer Price Indexes for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.
Paul Armknecht, CARTAC

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12 May 10
   
Indice des prix а la consommation: Ajustement de la qualité pour les produits vendus en unités non conventionnelles.
Claude Tchamda, AFRISTAT

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30 Apr.10

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13 Apr.10
 
Compiling a Service Producer Price Index using IMF developed Price Index Processor Software.
Niall O’Hanlon, Central Statistics Office, Ireland

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7 May 10
   
User relations
Official statistics: stakeholder engagement, user consultation and the planning process
David Fenwick, United Kingdom

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12 May 10

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6 May 10

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6 May 10
User relations and the New Zealand Consumers Price Index.
Daniel Griffiths, Statistics New Zealand

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11 May 10
   
Communicating the German CPI - Destatis “Price Kaleidoscope”.
Irmtraud Beurlein, Destatis, Germany

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5 May 10
   
Managing relations with external stakeholders of the South African Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Patrick Kelly, Statistics South Africa

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11 May 10
   
Review of the Australian Consumer Price Index.
Michael Abbondante and Susan Kluth, Australian Bureau of Statistics

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11 May 10
   
Room documents
An Overview of China's Real Estate Price Index.
Dong Lijuan, National Bureau of Statistics of China

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15 Apr.10
   
Designing a CPI in a developing country: some experiences.
Jorgen Dalen, Sweden

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15 Apr.10
   
Proposal to Create Alternative Multi-industry Medical Care Prices Indexes Structured by Disease.
Bonnie H. Murphy and Roslyn B. Swick, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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3 May 10
   
Producing disease based price indexes.
Ralph Bradley, Elaine Cardenas, Daniel H. Ginsburg, Lyubov Rozental and Frankie Velez, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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3 May 10
   
Ukrainian experience for house price indices calculation
State Statistics Committee of Ukraine

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3 May 10

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3 May 10

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3 May 10
Consumer Price Indices in Sudan.
Central Bureau of Statistics, Sudan

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6 May 10
   
Apparel Price Indexes Using Scanner Data: Initial Results.
John S. Greenlees and Robert McClelland, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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6 May 10
   
Problems and issues in compiling price indices for owner-occupied housing in Georgia.
Lia Minaridze, The National Statistics Office of Georgia

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7 May 10
   
The system of price indices in the Republic of Belarus.
National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus

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7 May 10
 
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7 May 10