Producer price indices volume 2002, Supplement 2
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2.10.3 Item selection
Once the weighting structure is established, it is possible to select representative items for pricing. The identification of these items will depend on their relative shares of expenditure. Thus, during a weighting revision exercise, some items will be dropped from the basket as their expenditure share has declined, and other items will appear because they have become more important. The HICP criterion is that new items should be introduced once their expenditure share reaches one part in 1 000. The ILO guidelines state that the methodology adopted should result in selections that are as representative as possible. Despite practical problems of implementation (e.g. resource constraints and insufficiently detailed expenditure data), the guidelines favour use of probability sampling techniques in the belief that they will enhance the accuracy of the index and allow estimation of the sampling error. However, such techniques are rarely used in practice. Notable exceptions are the United States and Mexico where both items and outlets are selected using probability proportional to size (PPS) methods. Where PPS is not used, items are selected according to expenditure shares. Varieties of items may either be selected by the national statistical institute head office, again using expenditure or market share data where possible, or varieties may be chosen by price collectors who are instructed to choose the most popular varieties based either on the advice of retailers or on the amount of shelf-space taken up. Item samples below the level at which weights are published can be revised in between major weight revisions 33 . This is most simply implemented where the modified Laspeyres formula (the price reference period is the previous month) is used, but can be done with the standard Laspeyres formula using a double price collection in one month to create an overlap link. The United States CPI takes advantage of the use of the modified Laspeyres to continuously revise lower level samples on a 33 The published weights can only change at a major revision, but the unpublished component weights within them can be adjusted when necessary, although this does, of course, violate the fixed base principal of a Laspeyres index. MEI Methodological Analysis - Supplement 2 © 2002 40 rotational basis. New and replacement items and varieties can also be introduced in this way, as long as they can be included within an existing published weight, i.e., personal computers could only be introduced at a major weight revision, whereas it might be possible to introduce mobile phones at any time if the lowest level weight published in the telecommunications category is for telephone services. Download 465.51 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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