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Price Index News: Virtual papers

CPI review information paper (October 2011)
Information paper about the 2011 CPI review.
Food price index review information paper (October 2011)
Information paper about the 2011 food price index review.
CPI papers from New Zealand Association of Economists conference (October 2011)
Statistics NZ presented a paper (about estimating price movements from scanner data) at the 2011 conference. There were also papers about the history of the CPI and the impact of discounts.
Statistics NZ papers for Ottawa Group 2011 meeting (July 2011)
Statistics NZ papers prepared for the 12th meeting of the UN International Working Group on Price Indices in May 2011.

Joint ILO/UNECE CPI meeting in May 2010 (July 2010)
Includes links to meeting papers, including two presented by Statistics NZ.
House price measurement in New Zealand and Australia (July 2010)
The measures are compared on a number of dimensions and there is a look at how the measures compare over the short and long term.
Measuring the impact of the emissions trading scheme (July 2010)
Discussion paper outlining how the impacts of an ETS in New Zealand will be shown in the Official Statistics System.
Statistics NZ clarifies impact of GST on CPI (April 2010)
Lifting GST to 15 percent could increase retail prices of goods and services that are subject to GST by 2.22 percent. There is also a link to the Tax Working Group's report.
Stocktake of house price measures in New Zealand (January 2010)
The measures are compared on a number of dimensions – quality adjustment, timing of data, weighting scheme, and coverage. There is also a link to the Review of Housing Statistics Report.

Contract indexation: a guide for businesses (October 2009)
Information and practical advice for parties that engage in commercial contracts on indexing payments. There is also a link to a research essay about how government agencies adjust government funding paid to non-government service providers.
Prices paper and poster from New Zealand Association of Economists conference (October 2009)
Statistics NZ presented a paper (about using hedonic regression to assess the housing rentals component of the CPI) and prepared a poster (Fifty years of food).
Discussion paper on analysing wage and price dynamics (October 2009)
Reserve Bank paper on the relationship between wages and consumer prices.
Treasury article on non-tradables inflation (October 2009)
Treasury article looking into the relationship between non-tradables inflation and domestic demand.
Ottawa Group meeting in May (July 2009)
Three Statistics NZ price-measurement papers prepared for the meeting.
Economic measurement group workshop paper (April 2009)
Producers price index paper prepared by Statistics NZ.
CPI review completed (January 2009)
Information paper about the 2008 CPI review.
Consumers price index retrospective superlative price index, 2008 (January 2009)
Indication of the effect of commodity substitution on the fixed-weight CPI, 2002-08.

Updating the food price index basket (September 2008)
The 2008 reselection and reweighting of the FPI basket. There are links to a review poster and the Hot off The Press commentary.
User guide for Statistics New Zealand's wage and income measures (July 2008)
Includes flowchart to help users choose appropriate measures.
2005 results from the OECD-Eurostat Purchasing Power Parity Programme (July 2008)
Includes GDP per capita based on PPPs and on exchange rates.
New Zealand Association of Economists conference 2007 (January 2008)
Papers presented by Statistics NZ including three on price measurement.

New goods in the CPI (April 2007)
Empirical analysis of the potential impact of 'new goods bias'.
CPI retrospective superlative index and alternative housing weights (April 2007)
Indication of the effect of commodity substitution on the fixed-weight CPI, 2002-06.

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