1. Consumer Price Indexes
Session IV: Expenditure and Price Deflators
Meeting of ICP Regional Coordinating Agencies
Washington, D.C., USA
May 29, 2015

2. Extrapolation of PPPs: HH Consumption Headings
What we wanted…
CPI time series for all ICP countries
at the most disaggregated level possible

3. What we found.. Source CPI Series Available Country Coverage
All years of interest?
Other Notes
ILO
Main Statistics (monthly)
“General” and “Food”
169 (countries, areas and territories)
Yes (updated monthly)
Gaps in many series
Breaks in series: some (not all) old and and new series are linked (joint point generally indicated)
Main Statistics (annual)
“General”, “General excl. Housing”, “Food”, “Clothing and Footwear”, “Rent”, “Electricity & Gas”
No, only up to 2011
Not all series are available for all countries
Breaks in series: some (not all) old and new series are linked (joint point generally indicated)
IMF
World Economic Outlook (WEO)
“General”
189
Yes (updated twice a year)
Breaks in series: old and new series are linked when there’s a break (no record of where joints where taken)
International Financial Statistics (IFS)
“General”, “General (Capital City)”, “Harmonized Consumer Price Index”
194 (countries and areas)
Haver Analytics
EMERGE
“General” and other detailed indices (full COICOP sometimes available) 60
Yes (updated continuously)
Disaggregated series available mainly for advanced economies
Disaggregated CPI classifications not always consistent across countries

4. Global CPI Collection Initiative
IMF, OECD and Eurostat will collect and
disseminate detailed national CPI data (i.e. 12 COICOP divisions) for all countries