Producer price indices volume 2002, Supplement 2
Should interest be included in CPIs?
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2.13.5 Should interest be included in CPIs?
The question of whether or not to include interest payments in a CPI stems from the question of whether or not debt should be treated as a commodity, where interest becomes a payment for a service. Interest payments should be included when a CPI is being used to assess the impact of inflation on households, to maintain the purchasing power of welfare benefits, as an input into wage negotiations or as an escalator for contracts of supply of goods and services. However, since interest rates are a key instrument of monetary policy, their inclusion in a CPI detracts from its use as a tool for monitoring the effectiveness of monetary policy. Interest rates tend to show short-term cyclical volatility, which masks inflation trends. There are three ways of measuring mortgage interest - simple revaluation, debt profile, and acquisition. 2.13.6 Rented housing The ILO guidelines in the area of rented housing merely state that rent information should be obtained from specially designed surveys of dwellings periodically updated to ensure continuing representativeness. The issues of particular concern regarding the quality and comparability of such information include the: • collection of price data from a variety of dwelling types and sizes; • inclusion of both high and low value housing; • geographic representativity of the sample of dwellings; • inclusion of both private and government owned dwellings; MEI Methodological Analysis - Supplement 2 © 2002 60 • methodologies for ensuring that attempts are made to collect information about quality changes for individual dwellings such as basing the survey on dwellings and not households, using a matched sample approach. Rent surveys are employed in almost all OECD Member countries. These are often quite small surveys though a notable exception is the United States where a survey of 40 000 tenants is conducted monthly. In a number of other countries, for example Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, rent survey information for private sector properties is supplemented by data supplied directly by public rental authorities. Table 11 summarises methodologies actually used and lists a range of different approaches to obtain price details on rent. These entail the collection of information from agents, landlords or tenants. Table 11: Consumer prices: Methodology for treatment of rented housing Download 465.51 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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