Documents & Reports
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Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy : The Framework, Methodology, and Research of the International Comparison Program (ICP) (Chinese)
The International Comparison Program (ICP) has become not only the largest international statistical program in the world, but also the most complex. In the years leading up to 2005, six rounds of the...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 79451 Document Date: July 23, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blades,Derek,Chen,Shaohua,Coonan,James,Deaton,Angus S.
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International Comparison Program (ICP) : quarterly update for December 31, 2016 (English)
This newsletter includes the following headings : International Comparison Program (ICP) governing board inaugural meetings; ICP Africa task force meeting; national accounts seminar for Latin America and...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 113263 Document Date: December 31, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Operational Guidelines and Procedures for Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy : 2011 International Comparison Program (English)
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a global statistical initiative that collects prices, national accounts expenditures, and related information from the world's economies in order to compare...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 99028 Document Date: August 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brannon,Morgan,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Djayeola,Biokou Mathieu,Hamadeh,Nada,Mouyelo-Katoula,Michel,Rissanen,Marko Olavi,Romand,Virginia,Song,Inyoung,Vogel,Frederic A.,Yamanaka,Mizuki,Abels,Miglena,Jerbi,Imededdine,Lee,Min Ji,Min,Kyung Sam
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Operational Guidelines and Procedures for Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy : 2011 International Comparison Program (Chinese)
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a global statistical initiative that collects prices, national accounts expenditures, and related information from the world's economies in order to compare...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 99028 Document Date: August 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brannon,Morgan,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Djayeola,Biokou Mathieu,Hamadeh,Nada,Mouyelo-Katoula,Michel,Rissanen,Marko Olavi,Romand,Virginia,Song,Inyoung,Vogel,Frederic A.,Yamanaka,Mizuki,Abels,Miglena,Jerbi,Imededdine,Lee,Min Ji,Min,Kyung Sam
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Purchasing power parities and real expenditures of World economics : a comprehensive report of the 2011 International Comparison Program (English)
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a large and highly complex worldwide statistical program conducted under the charter of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). The ICP is designed...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 92494 Document Date: November 5, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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International Comparison Program (ICP) country software : user manual (English)
The ICP Country Software is a part of the International Comparison Program which includes a series of statistical surveys held worldwide to collect price data for a sample of commonly bought goods and...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90883 Document Date: April 16, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Status report on the International Comparison Programme (ICP) (English)
The International Comparison Program (ICP) Global Office welcomes the opportunity to present the Statistical Commission and heads of National Statistical Offices a status report providing updated information...
Report No.: 90990 Document Date: March 3, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Regional coordinators eleventh meeting : minutes of meeting (March 3, 2014) (English)
The eleventh meeting of the international comparison program (ICP) 2011 regional coordinators (RCs) was held on March 3, 2014 at the United Nations in New York. The attendees were the RCs from Africa...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90970 Document Date: March 3, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Eleventh ICP 2011 Executive Board meeting : minutes of meeting (English)
The eleventh meeting of the international comparison program (ICP) 2011 Executive Board took place on March 2, 2014 in New York. to: (i) review and discuss the final ICP 2011 global results; (ii) provide...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90263 Document Date: March 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Findings of the second ICP results review group meeting : eleventh Executive Board meeting (English)
The purpose of the meeting was to review the results from the final computations of the global level purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures. The data review included an assessment of the...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 91007 Document Date: March 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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2011 ICP global report outline draft as of February 21, 2014 : eleventh Executive Board meeting (English)
The purpose of international comparison program (ICP) is to compare the price and real expenditure levels of gross domestic product (GDP) and component expenditures across participating countries; a description...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90264 Document Date: March 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Report of the World Bank on the international comparison program (English)
This report provides the Commission with a comprehensive update on the status of the implementation of the 2011 round of the International Comparison Program (ICP), with specific emphasis on the activities...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 91002 Document Date: March 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Quality assurance framework for the 2011 International Comparison Program (English)
This report is a product of the Executive Boards meeting of the International Comparison Program (ICP) held in New York on February 21, 2010. The ICP quality assurance framework (QAF) is derived from the...
Report No.: 90206 Document Date: February 21, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Tenth ICP 2011 Executive Board meeting : minutes of meeting (English)
The tenth meeting of the international comparison program (ICP) 2011 Executive Board took place on January 24, 2014, at the World Bank in Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.) to: (i) confirm the due...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90261 Document Date: January 24, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Understanding changes in methodology between the 2005 and 2011 international comparison programs : tenth Executive Board meeting (English)
This paper provides an overview of the technical decisions that underlie the results of the 2011 international comparison program (ICP) and concludes that there are no further steps or computations that...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90262 Document Date: January 24, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Terms of reference : ICP tool pack testing (English)
The primary objective of the tool pack is to improve national and international data collection and processing capacity. Its aim is to strengthen key areas of data development, including: (a) supporting...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90331 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Lessons learned from use of basket of construction components (English)
The underlying principle of the Basket of Construction Components (BOCC) was that the construction costs of residential and non residential buildings and civil engineering works could be compared by pricing...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90522 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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ICP computation task force meeting : issues around the calculation of PPPS and the publication of results for the Pacific region (English)
The Pacific region will be linked to other regions via three link countries that have participated in both the Pacific comparison and the Asian comparison (in the case of Fiji) and the OECD comparison...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90821 Document Date: December 3, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Fifth meeting of the ICP computation task force meeting (December 2-3, 2013) (English)
The fifth meeting of the computation task force (CoTaF) was held on December 2-3, 2013 at the World Bank in Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.). The attendees were CoTaF members, technical advisory...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90824 Document Date: December 3, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Fifth meeting of the ICP computation task force meeting (December 2-3, 2013) (English)
The fifth meeting of the computation task force (CoTaF) was held on December 2-3, 2013 at the World Bank in Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.). The attendees were CoTaF members, technical advisory...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90795 Document Date: December 3, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed