Prices and Purchasing Power Parities

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Consumer Price Indices (CPI) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Updated continuously - Data is available in index and in percentage change on the same period of the previous year. Consumer Prices Indices (CPI) are a general measure of inflation. CPI "all items non-food ...

Producer Price Indices (PPI) for OECD Countries and Major Non-Member Economies

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06-Nov-2009

Updated continuously - Data is available in index and in percentage change on the same period of the previous year. Producer prices are PPI for manufacturing. However, some countries do not produce a PPI ...

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 3 November 2009

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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.

EO85 Annex Tables: Wages, costs, unemployment and inflation

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07-Jul-2009

Statistical Annex tables in Excel format from OECD Economic Outlook No. 85.  This file includes tables on compensation per employee in the business sector; labour productivity in the business sector; ...

Inflation Measures: Too High - Too Low - Internationally Comparable? Paris, 21-22 June 2005

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29-Aug-2005

Held in Paris on 21-22 June 2005 at the OECD Headquarters.

OECD Main Economic Indicators: Explanatory Notes: Metadata - Target Definitions

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06-Nov-2009

The Explanatory Notes: Metadata - Target Definitions provide a brief general description of the indicators and an outline of key issues that can impact on use of the data.

OECD Main Economic Indicators: Online Sources and Definitions - Producer and Other Price Indices

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07-Jul-2006

Main Economic Indicators: Electronically available national practices for individual OECD member countries - Updated in real time.

Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services

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13-Mar-2006

This Guide, jointly produced by the OECD and Eurostat, is a complement to the International Producer Price Index Manual (PPI Manual). It focuses on service-specific aspects in the PPI compilation by

OECD Main Economic Indicators: Online Sources and Definitions - Consumer Price Indices

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10-Feb-2006

 Main Economic Indicators: Electronically available national practices for individual OECD member countries - Updated in real time.

Producer Price Index Manual - Theory and Practice

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30-Sep-2004

This Producer Price Index Manual replaces the United Nations’ Manual on Producers’ Price Indices for Industrial Goods issued in 1979 (Series M, No. 66). The development of the PPI Manual has been undertaken ...

Consumer Price Index Manual - Theory and Practice

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30-Jul-2004

This important and comprehensive manual provides guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing Consumer Price indices (CPIs) and explains in-depth the methods ...

Comparative Methodological Analysis: Consumer and Producer Price Indices

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13-Aug-2002

OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) - Sources and Methods: Consumer Price Indices, April 1994

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02-Oct-2001

Main Economic Indicators - Sources and Methods: Consumer Price Indices, April 1994

GDP PPPs and Derived Indices for all OECD Countries

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated monthly) - Purchasing power parities (PPPs) are the rates of currency conversion that eliminate the differences in price levels between countries. Per capita volume indices based on PPP converte

OECD Comparative Price Levels

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06-Nov-2009

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated monthly) - Monthly comparative price levels are defined as the ratios of PPPs for private final consumption expenditure to exchange rates. The table is to be read vertically.

Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and exchange rates

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12-Jan-2009

Updated continuously. Includes Purchasing power parities (PPPs) for GDP and for actual individual consumption and exchange rates (national currency per USD) from 1970 to latest available.

New comparison of GDP and consumption based on purchasing power parities for the year 2005

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21-Nov-2007

The OECD, in partnership with Eurostat, ROSSTAT  and CISSTAT, has calculated benchmark purchasing power parities (PPPs) for GDP and consumption for the year 2005 for 55 countries following a common ...

New GDP Comparisons Based on Purchasing Power Parities for the Year 2002

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11-Jan-2005

The OECD, within the framework of the Eurostat-OECD joint PPP Programme has calculated purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the benchmark year 2002 for all 30 OECD Member countries and 12 other countries. ...

EUROSTAT-OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities (PPPs)

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15-Jun-2007

The EUROSTAT-OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities has three aims: first, to explain to those engaged directly in the Programme - that is, to practitioners in Eurostat, the ...

GDP per Capita Volume Indices Based on Constant and on Current PPPs in OECD's Main Economic Indicators (MEI) - Note to the MEI Table: PPPs and Derived Indices for all OECD Countries

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01-Oct-2004

Until now the MEI table presented only one option: per capita volume indices using current PPPs. However, it was felt that, for analytical purposes and for a better comprehension of published data both options should be shown. This follows the pr...