Prices and Purchasing Power Parities

Prices and Price Indices

Statistics, Data and Indicators (12)

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 31 January 2012

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31-Jan-2012

This easing in the annual rate of inflation mainly reflected the slower growth in energy prices, which increased by 8.1% in the year to December, down from 11.6% in the year to November.

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

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31-Jan-2012

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 non-energy" is a measure ...

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

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12-Jan-2012

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 and a wholesale price ...

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 5 January 2012

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05-Jan-2012

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.1% in the year to November 2011, compared with 3.2% in the year to October 2011.

EO Annex Tables: Wages, costs, unemployment and inflation

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06-Dec-2011

Statistical Annex tables in Excel format from OECD Economic Outlook.  This file includes tables on compensation per employee in the business sector; labour productivity in the business sector; unemployment ...

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 29 November 2011

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29-Nov-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.2% in the year to October 2011, compared with 3.3% in the year to September.

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 2 November 2011

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02-Nov-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.3% in the year to September 2011, compared with 3.2% in the year to August - the highest rate since October 2008.

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 4 October 2011

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04-Oct-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.2% in the year to August 2011, compared with 3.1% in the year to July.

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 6 September 2011

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06-Sep-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.1% in the year to July 2011, compared with 3.0% in the year to June.

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 2 August 2011

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02-Aug-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.1% in the year to June 2011, compared with 3.2% in May - the first decrease in inflation since November 2010.

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 5 July 2011

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05-Jul-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 3.2% in the year to May 2011, compared with 2.9% in April - the highest rate since October 2008.

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 31 May 2011

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31-May-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 2.9% in the year to April 2011, compared with 2.7% in March - the highest rate since October 2008.

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Manuals, Sources and Methods (3)

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

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31-Jan-2012

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

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

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31-Jan-2012

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

The International Producer Price Index Manual (PPI Manual) published by the IMF in 2004, constituted a landmark for international standards on price measurement and contains detailed, comprehensive information ...

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Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) Statistics

Statistics, Data and Indicators (5)

Comparative Price Levels, OECD

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05-Jan-2012

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. Each column shows the number of specified ...

Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) Data

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06-Jan-2011

Latest statistics for Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) and Comparative Price Level (CPL).

Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and exchange rates

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08-Nov-2010

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. ...

Manuals, Sources and Methods (2)

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; second, to enable these practitioners to brief ...

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...

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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