FUNDAMENTALS OF PRICE STATISTICS

• 02/10/2020 - 02/14/2019  Gaborone, Botswana
  
  

  The main objective is to strengthen the participants’ knowledge of price indices concepts and methods relating to the implementation of international standards and best practices.
  
  This five-day seminar will focus on the fundamental data sources and compilation procedures as well as the challenges compilers face in developing/updating price indices. Topics will include general price indices issues; contributing to the development of source data surveys as well as analyzing the subsequent results; constructing expenditure shares; issues with the development/updating weights, selecting samples, quality adjustment issues, and pricing difficult items. Participants will be invited to list specific questions, topics, issues which will be discussed during the seminar.