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Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice

August 25, 2004

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International Monetary Fund. Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed April 26, 2025, https://0-doi-org.library.svsu.edu/10.5089/9789221136996.069

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Summary

The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. It is a key statistic for economic and social policymaking and has substantial and wide-ranging implications for governments, businesses, and households. This important and comprehensive Manual provides guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing CPIs, and explains in-depth the methods that are used to calculate a CPI. It also examines the underlying economic and statistical concepts and principles needed for making choices in efficient and cost-effective ways, and for appreciating the full implications of those choices.

Subject: Commodities, Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Cost of living, Expenditure, National accounts, Price indexes, Prices

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Cost of living, Europe, Expenditure share, Global, M&G, Middle East, North America, Northern Europe, Price change, Price collection, Price collector, Price indexes, Reference period, Western Europe

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Full Text in English available on the International Labour Organization website. Also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Russian

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