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Title At what price? : conceptualizing and measuring cost-of-living and price indexes / Panel on Conceptual, Measurement, and Other Statistical Issues in Developing Cost-of-Living Indexes ; Charles L. Schultze and Christopher Mackie, editors
Published Washington, DC : National Academy Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages)
Contents Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Foundations for Price and Cost-of-Living Indexes -- 3 Index Domain -- 4 Evolving Market Baskets: Adjusting Indexes to Account for Quality Change -- 5 New Goods and New Outlets -- 6 The Special Case of Medical Services -- 7 Index Design and Index Purpose -- 8 Whose Index? Aggregating Across Households -- 9 Data Collection for CPI Construction -- Appendix Statistical Definition and Estimation of Price Indexes -- References -- Glossary
Notes "Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-305) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Consumer price indexes -- United States
Cost and standard of living -- United States -- Statistical methods
Prices -- United States -- Statistical methods
Economic indicators -- United States
Index numbers (Economics)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
Consumer price indexes
Cost and standard of living -- Statistical methods
Economic indicators
Index numbers (Economics)
Prices -- Statistical methods
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Schultze, Charles L
Mackie, Christopher D
National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Conceptual, Measurement, and Other Statistical Issues in Developing Cost-of-Living Indexes.
ISBN 0309512174
9780309512176
0309170796
9780309170796
1280184698
9781280184697
9786610184699
6610184690
Other Titles Cost-of-living and price indexes