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Price Index News: Working with others

Economic Measurement Group Workshop 2011 (January 2012)
Price measurement papers included ones on scanner data and house-price measurement.

Ottawa Group 2011 meeting (July 2011)
Statistics NZ hosted the 12th meeting of the UN International Working Group on Price Indices in May 2011.
Purchasing Power Parity Programme 2008 results (April 2011)
Benchmark results for 2008 are now available.
Ottawa Group 2011 meeting (April 2011)
Statistics NZ is hosting the 12th meeting of the UN International Working Group on Price Indices in May 2011.
CPI adjustment to New Zealand Superannuation and benefit rates (April 2011)
How the 3.75 percent increase from 1 April 2011 was calculated.
Australian CPI review outcome paper (January 2011)
Includes a link to an information paper on the outcome of the review.
Ottawa Group 2011 meeting (January 2011)
Statistics NZ is hosting the 12th meeting of the UN International Working Group on Price Indices in May 2011.
Economic Measurement Group Workshop 2010 (January 2011)
Price measurement papers included ones on scanner data and house-price measurement.
Labour, Employment and Work Conference (January 2011)
Included a paper on the relationship between real wages and productivity.

Purchasing power parities meeting in September (October 2010)
Details of the September 2010 meeting to discuss results of the 2008 round and progress with the 2011 round.
Australian CPI review (July 2010)
Includes links to an information paper and public submissions.
Reserve Bank's inflation calculator (July 2010)
The calculator provides a quick way of comparing the purchasing power of money between two dates.
UNECE/ILO CPI meeting in May 2010 (April 2010)
Statistics NZ is preparing two papers for the upcoming meeting.
CPI adjustment to NZ superannuation and benefit payments (April 2010)
Benefit payments increased by 1.96 percent on 1 April 2010 (based on the CPI) and NZ superannuation payments increased by 2.31 percent.
Meeting with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (January 2010)
Seven staff from Australia travelled to Wellington for a three-day prices bilateral meeting in November 2009.
Economic Measurement Group 2009 – presentation on the use of hedonics at Statistics New Zealand (January 2010)
Hedonics is the use of regression modelling to measure price change.

New monthly housing price index (October 2009)
Developed by the Reserve Bank and published by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.
Prices meeting with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (July 2009)
Upcoming three-day bilateral meeting in November 2009.
Purchasing power parities meeting in April (July 2009)
Details of the April 2009 meeting to discuss interim results of the first 2008-round surveys.
Ottawa Group meeting in May (April 2009)
Topics for the upcoming meeting in May 2009, for which Statistics NZ prepared three price-measurement papers.
Economic Measurement Group Workshop (January 2009)
Statistics NZ prepared a paper on the producers price index.
Burgers, mackerel, and PPPs (January 2009)
GDP per capita and burgernomics based on purchasing power parities.

International conferences on consumer price indexes (September 2008)
Progress on the ILO CPI manual supplementary handbook and a report on the joint UNECE/ILO CPI meeting in May 2008.
International Comparison Programme update (September 2008)
Report on the 2005 ICP round, used to estimate PPPs.
Economic Measurement Group Workshop (January 2008)
Statistics NZ presented papers, including one on price measurement.

Ottawa group (October 2007)
Statistics NZ prepared three price-measurement papers for the meeting, including two for presentation.
Prices team meets with scanner data researcher (July 2007)
Kevin Fox discussed scanner data research and house price measurement with Statistics NZ.
Statistics New Zealand's International Assistance Programme (July 2007)
A four-week visit to Statistics NZ by statisticians from Samoa, Tonga, and Palau.
Upcoming Voorburg Group meeting (July 2007)
Topics for upcoming meeting on services statistics.
Statistics New Zealand's International Assistance Programme (April 2007)
Statisticians from Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Cook Islands spent four weeks at Statistics NZ learning how to undertake a consumer price index review.
Prices bilateral meeting with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (April 2007)
Statistics NZ staff travelled to Canberra for a two-day meeting.
International service statistics events (April 2007)
Statistics NZ participated in the Voorburg Group meeting and a services producer price index workshop.

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