Consumer Price Index Manual

Consumer Price Index Manual
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2004-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221136996

The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which prices of consumer goods and services change over time. It is used as a key indicator of economic performance, as well as in the setting of monetary and socio-economic policy such as indexation of wages and social security benefits, purchasing power parities and inflation measures. This manual contains methodological guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing and calculating CPIs, and also examines underlying economic and statistical concepts involved. Topics covered include: expenditure weights, sampling, price collection, quality adjustment, sampling, price indices calculations, errors and bias, organisation and management, dissemination, index number theory, durables and user costs.

Year Book Australia 1994

Year Book Australia 1994
Author: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Publisher: Aust. Bureau of Statistics
Total Pages: 799
Release: 1993
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

What Figures

What Figures
Author: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1993
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation

The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation
Author: Mr. Kangni R Kpodar
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1616356154

This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest income quintiles with the view to assess the distributional impact of the pass-through. To undertake this analysis, the paper provides an update to the Global Monthly Retail Fuel Price Database, expanding the product coverage to premium and regular fuels, the time dimension to December 2020, and the sample to 190 countries. Three key findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad-based in developing economies than in advanced economies. Second, we show that past studies using crude oil prices instead of retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing power of all households declines as fuel prices increase, the distributional impact is progressive. But the progressivity phases out within 6 months after the shock in advanced economies, whereas it persists beyond a year in developing countries.

Issues to be Considered During the 13th Series Australian Consumer Price Index Review

Issues to be Considered During the 13th Series Australian Consumer Price Index Review
Author: W. McLennan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1997
Genre: Consumer price indexes
ISBN:

The Australian Consumer Price Index is subject to periodic review. The scoping paper discusses major issues to be considered in the current review and presents Australian Bureau of Statistics preliminary views on these matters as a basis for public consultation. Issues to be addressed include: the principle purpose of the CPI; the population and regional coverage; frequency of publication; and the commodity classification and item coverage.

A Guide to the Consumer Price Index

A Guide to the Consumer Price Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1999
Genre: Consumer price indexes
ISBN: 9780642274922

A booklet designed to promote understanding of the CPI among general users. Briefly covers such topics as: what is the CPI; to whom does the CPI relate; the composition of the CPI "basket"; collecting the prices; how the CPI is calculated; and using the CPI. Also contains a table showing the weighting pattern of the 13th CPI and examples of the items priced for the CPI.