Producer price indices volume 2002, Supplement 2
Treatment of rent and home ownership
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2.13 Treatment of rent and home ownership
The cost of housing is generally a major component of household expenditure in all OECD Member countries. For example, the CPI weight for “shelter” in 1992 in Canada was just under 28% 36 . The 14th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in 1987 agreed that a CPI should include a component for shelter. However, the measurement of shelter costs is far from straightforward and several serious measurement problems occur in many countries. Firstly, although it might at first appear a simple matter to identify weights and price indicators for rents paid for housing, there are often conceptual decisions to be made about how to treat controlled rents and how to design price surveys where the rental market is small or unregulated. There are also often quality adjustment issues to take into account. 36 Statistics Canada, Your Guide to the Consumer Price Index, Catalogue No. 62-557-XPB, 1996, page 6. MEI Methodological Analysis - Supplement 2 © 2002 54 The second major problem with shelter costs is how to deal with owner-occupied housing. Here, there may be no monetary payments (in which case a decision is needed about whether to impute) or house purchases (cash or mortgage payments) may contain a capital component as well as a consumption component. There is no generally accepted method for dealing with owner-occupied housing. Practices vary widely between countries because the various uses of a CPI have different priorities in different countries, and different practices have different data requirements. The main questions surrounding the treatment of shelter costs are: • what is being consumed? • should expenditure weights, and thus prices, be imputed in CPIs? • which measurement approach (user-cost, acquisitions or payments) is appropriate? • should interest be included in CPIs? Download 465.51 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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