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IWGPS: Consumer Price Index Manual:
Theory and Practice (2004)
- Revision of the International Guidelines on Consumer Price Index (Background paper))
- Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (IWGPS):
- Establishment of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (IWGPS) and Technical Expert Group on CPI (TEG-CPI) Terms of Reference of IWGPS (1998) (2004) (2011)
- Members of IWGPS (2007) (2012)
- IWGPS Reports to the UN Statistical Commission: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (room document), 2005, 2006 (room document), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
- Minutes of the IWGPS meetings: 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012a, 2012b, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c, 2014a, 2014b, 2014c, 2014d, 2015a, 2015b 2016a
- Terms of Reference of TEG-CPI
- Minutes of the 1st to the 7th TEC-CPI meetings. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th
- Relationship between the IWGPS, the Ottawa Group and the Joint UNECE/ILO meetings on CPI
- Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice
- Electronic Discussion Group: Call for comments and suggestions
- Survey on the usefulness of the CPI Manual
- Summary results of the survey
Other price manuals:
- PPI Manual
- Export Import Manual
- Supplementary Handbook on CPI (English, French, Spanish)
Useful links:
- ICLS Resolution on CPI
- Joint UN/ECE-ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, May 2012.
- Joint UN/ECE-ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 10 to 12 May 2010.
- Joint UN/ECE-ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 7 to 9 May 2008 and See also.
- Joint UN/ECE-ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 10 to 12 May 2006.
- Joint UN/ECE-ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 4 and 5 December 2003.
- Documents for the ECE/ILO Meeting on CPI, Geneva, 1-2 November 2001 and Summary of discussions
- Documents for the ECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 3 to 5 November, 1999 and Summary of discussions
- Ottawa Group on Price Indices
- Consumer Price Index Methodology, by Ralph Turvey
- Revision of the IMF Manual on PPI
- IMF Descriptions of National CPI
- Sources & Methods Volume 1, Consumer Price Indices (ILO Publication)
- International Workshop on Consumer Price Indices, Joint Statistics Singapore-OECD, 4-8 June 2001
- World Inflation
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX MANUAL: THEORY AND PRACTICE (2004)
Below are all the chapters of this manual in .pdf format. It would be useful if you could indicate to the ILO Department of Statistics which chapters you have downloaded and which institution. you are from.
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Survey on the CPI Manual (English, French and Spanish): Background and purpose
- The Consumer Price Index (CPI) Manual was published in 2004. It provides the theory and conceptual framework of the CPI and aims to give methodological and practical guidelines for the compilation of CPIs. The Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (IWGPS), which has overall responsibility for the revisions of the manual, has requested the ILO and the UNECE to conduct a worldwide survey on its' uses. The purpose of this survey is to obtain users' feedback on the manual for future revisions of the electronic version. This feedback will also be used as input for future work on possible Supplementary Handbooks, as well as for future meetings on CPIs.
- The questionnaire consists of 14 questions. Questions 1 - 9 concern your assessment of the CPI Manual. Questions 10 - 14 concern some specific issues in the compilation of CPI, where information about your current practice is kindly requested. Where appropriate please consult fellow compilers of your CPI or where you are a user, fellow users about the usefulness of the manual.
- To ensure the validity of the survey, it is important that we receive a completed questionnaire from as many compilers and users of CPI as possible. Your participation is therefore needed and highly appreciated.
- Electronic copies in English, French or Spanish can be obtained from the Department of Statistics .
- Any enquiries should be sent to Valentina Stoevska.
Findings of the survey on the usefulness of the CPI Manual
Electronic Discussion Group: Call for comments and suggestions
This website is specifically dedicated to having an open and full discussion of the material that appears in the new CPI Manual published in July 2004. This important and comprehensive manual provides up-to-date guidance for national statistical offices and other agencies responsible for CPI construction, on the concepts, uses, methods and the underlying economic and statistical theory on which these are based, as well as on classifications, sources, and compilation techniques. It provides information on the analytical uses of the CPI and helps users to understand the processes involved in CPI calculation. Authored by seventeen CPI experts from national and international organizations and the academic world, it draws on national CPI experience and on recent developments in index number theory.The purpose of the discussion group is to elicit comments and to promote discussion on specific topics in the CPI Manual. We are calling all interested groups, organisations and experts to send comments and suggestions on the CPI manual, both in terms of the specific issues addressed in this manual and on the layout and format of the manual.
Please send your comments and suggestions to the ILO Department of Statistics. Much as these comments will be taken into consideration in revising the electronic version of the manual, we cannot however assure that we will be able to give full consideration to all comments received.
Created and updated by AL. Last update: 10.06.08.