Practical Guide to Producing Consumer Price Indices

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This Handbook is targeted at developing countries focusing on practical solutions to the problems facingcompilers of the consumer price index (CPI) in the developing world. It provides practical guidance on allaspects of compiling a CPI, and offers advice on a range of operational issues in data collection, dataprocessing and publication. Although targeted at CPI compilers in developing countries it will also be ofinterest to compilers more generally.The Handbook follows and supplements the international Consumer Price Index Manual. Theory and Practice,published in 2004. It is accompanied by a CD‐ROM with training aids and references, including interactiveexamples of the methods and calculations given in the Handbook, where users can input their own data.The publication of the Handbook is the result of a collaborative effort involving experts from a number ofcountries and organisations, and it has benefited from the input from CPI compilers in developing countries.By referring to the CPI Manual and drawing on experience of experts from both developed and developingcountries the Handbook provides internationally agreed guidance and suggests good practices with theobjective to help national statistical offices to further improve their CPI statistics

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