Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Conceptual Foundations for Price and Cost-of-Living Indexes
  • 3 Index Domain
  • 4 Evolving Market Baskets: Adjusting Indexes to Account for Quality Change
  • 5 New Goods and New Outlets
  • 6 The Special Case of Medical Services
  • 7 Index Design and Index Purpose
  • 8 Whose Index? Aggregating Across Households
  • 9 Data Collection for CPI Construction
  • Appendix Statistical Definition and Estimation of Price Indexes
  • References
  • Glossary