Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice

Abstract

"This volume is an expanded revision of Consumer price indices: An ILO manual, published in 1989"--Page v. 1. An introduction to consumer price index methodology -- 2. Uses of consumer price indices -- 3. Concepts and stope -- 4. Expenditure weights and their sources -- 5. Sampling -- 6. Price collection -- 7. Adjusting for quality change -- 8. Item substitution, sample space and new products -- 9. Calculating consumer price indices in practice -- 10. Some special cases -- 11. Errors and bias -- 12. Organization and management -- 13. Publication, dissemination and user relations -- 14. The system of price statistics -- 15. Basic index number theory -- 16. The axiomatic and stochastic approaches to index number theory -- 17. The economic approach to index number theory : the single-household case.