Producer price indices volume 2002, Supplement 2
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1.8 Conclusions
As mentioned above, the focus of this publication is the presentation of comparisons of national practice in OECD Member countries in the compilation of consumer and producer price indices. It does this by comparing (in a series of comparison tables) current national practice in important aspects of methodology subjectively believed to have particular impact on the comparability of price indices produced by Member countries. In addition, this volume also contains a significant amount of information relating to recommendations on best practice for the compilation of consumer and producer price indices. Such information will be of use to countries in the process of creating their own indicators or overhauling existing indicators. The methodological information obtained from national agencies and other international organisations was thus sought for a purpose that is probably more specific to the needs of an international organisation such as the OECD, i.e. assessment of the comparability of national indicators. The recommendations on best practice should nonetheless be of use to national organisations. The exercise required use of national metadata that was in most cases intended originally to give transparency to the statistics to national users. The process of preparing the comparison tables highlighted the limitations of currently available metadata for use in international comparisons. These limitations stem from problems of accessibility, differences in semantics (the same term does not necessarily have the same meaning) and the fact that national agencies frequently describe different aspects of the statistical production cycle. It is often difficult to obtain metadata for all 30 OECD Member that describes the same methodological element. The current publication falls well short of describing in any quantitative way the actual significance that identified differences in national practices have with respect to each of the indicators described. However, not withstanding these issues, it is possible for users to draw some conclusions regarding the comparability of the indicators described from the information provided in this publication. The significance of the differences identified can really only be made in the context of a specific use of the data. Download 465.51 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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