Documents & Reports
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Linking education for Eurostat-OECD countries to other ICP regions (English)
Eurostat and the OECD stopped using the input-price approach for education in 2008. It has been replaced by an output method or, more precisely, a quantity method with quality adjustment. A full description...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90780 Document Date: May 21, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Koechlin, Francette, Konijn, Paulus
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Background note on productivity adjustments as a special case of general regional linking problem (English)
This note follows on my presentation at the Paris meeting. It is clear that in the 2011 ICP different methods will be used in different regions to handle some fairly significant expenditure headings. For...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90607 Document Date: October 22, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heston,Alan Wiley
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ICP quality assurance framework (English)
The International Comparison Program (ICP) started as a modest research project of the University of Pennsylvania and the United Nations Statistical Office in the late 1960s. It is now a worldwide statistical...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90881 Document Date: April 16, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Treatment of exports and imports, and adjustment of household consumption for net purchases abroad : treatment of exports and imports (English)
The objective of the paper is to determine whether there should be some adjustments to exchange rates to reflect differences in costs such as freight charges. The starting point was to examine the availability...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90467 Document Date: February 19, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: McCart, Paul,Sergeev,Sergey