International Comparison Program2011 Round

The Core List

Regional Coordinators MeetingSeptember 28-30, 2009

Washington DC

The ICP 2011 Round will broaden its scope by improving the methodologies that link data between regions.

New approach: the core list items, has been developed by the Global Office (GO) to cover more relevant goods and services.

The core list is an extraction of selected items from the source list that reproduces the same PPPs as the 2005 Round.

This core list should be part of each regional list and will be priced by all countries in all regions and subregions.

ICP 2011 -- Core List

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Core List Structure

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1 kg

2 kg

500 g

1.5 kg

Long

Round

Long

Broken

Basmati

Jasmine

Basmati

Thai

Weight Grain Category

Pre-packed

Loose

Loose

Packaging

Indrice

Brandless

Brand

Basmati rice pre-packed

Rice

Round grain rice

Basmati rice small

bag

Broken rice

Basmati rice

flavouredPaddy1 kg Long

Brandless

Pre-packed

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Timetable – Global Core List

Building the Global Core List 2009 2010

 Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

(S1) GO builds the draft GC List                                       (M1) GO sends draft GC List to RCs for comments/changes/ additions/deletions                                      (S2) RCs review the draft GC List and propose changes/ additions/deletions                                      (M2) RCs send their comments to the GO                                      (S3) GO analyzes the responses from RCs and revises the GC List                                      (M3) GO sends a revised GC List to RCs                                      

(M4) RCs send the revised GC List to their countries and ask them to identify products as Representative/Available/Not Available

                                     (S4) Countries identify GC List products as Representative/Available/Not Available                                      (M5) RCs share with GO the answers from the countries                                      (S5) GO finalizes the GC List taking account of comments received from RCs                                      (M6) GO sends final GC List to RCs for inclusion in the Regional core lists and therefore the Regional lists                                      (S6) RCs include GC items in the Regional core lists and therefore the Regional lists                                                                            

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