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Prices and Purchasing Power Parities (PPP)
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Price indices provide measures of changes over time in prices paid/received by consumers/producers of goods and services. Purchasing power parities (PPPs) are the rates of currency conversion that eliminate the differences in price levels between countries.

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Consumer Prices in OECD area fall 0.3% in year to September 2009

03-Nov-2009

Consumer prices in the OECD area fell by 0.3 % in the year to September 2009, the same rate as August. Month-on-month, prices remained stable in September, compared with a rise of 0.2% in August 2009.

OECD statistics on Purchasing Power Parities (PPP)

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Statistics Brief

The March 2002 issue of the Statistics Brief gives an overview of the measurement and the uses of PPPs.

Purchasing Power Parities – Measurement and Uses