Working Group and Expert Group on the Revision of the CPI Manual

Departments and Offices

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
Members of IWGPS
IWGPS Reports to the UN Statistical Commission: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (room document), 2005, 2006 (room document), 2007, 2008
Minutes of the IWGPS meetings: 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

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 (to be available shortly)

Below are links you may find useful:

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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 Bureau of Statistics which chapters you have downloaded and which institution. you are from.
Order form for the printed priced version.
French
Spanish
Russian
Japanese (available shortly)

Chapter

Chapter	Title	Corrections/Revisions as at 20.8.07
-	Foreward, Contents, Preface,Acknowledgements, Reader's Guide	Preface corrected
1	An introduction to consumer price indices methodology	Corrected
2	Uses of consumer price indices
3	Concepts and scope
4	Expenditure weights and their sources	Corrected
5	Sampling
6	Price collection
7	Adjusting for quality change	Revised
8	Item substitutiton, sample space and new products	Revised
9	Calculating consumer price indices in practice	Revised 23.4.08
10	Some special cases
11	Errors and bias	Corrected
12	Organization and management	Corrected
13	Publication, dissemination and user relations
14	The system of price statistics	Corrected
15	Basic index number theory	Corrected
16	Axiomatic and stochastic approaches to index number theory	Corrected
17	The economic approach to index number theory: The single household case	Corrected
18	The economic approach to index number theory: The many household case	Corrected
19	Price indices using an artificial data set
20	Elementary indices	Corrected
21	Quality change and hedonics	Revised
22	The treatment of seasonal products	Corrected
23	Durables and user costs	Corrected
Glossary	A glossary of main terms and annex to the glossary.
Erratum	Mathematical changes
ANNEXES
1	Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (European Union)	Corrected
2	Classification of individual consumption according to purpose (COICOP) - Extract United Nations
3	Resolution concerning consumer price indices adopted by the 17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, November 2003
4	Spatial comparisons of consumer prices, purchasing power parities and the International Comparison Program	Corrected
5	Bibliography	Corrected
6	Index

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 Bureau of Statistics .

Any enquiries should be sent to Valentina Stoevska.

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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 Bureau 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: 24.04.08.

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