1. The RPPI Handbook Project
Bert M. Balk
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Workshop on RPPIs, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague-Leidschenveen, February 2011

2. Context Various international Manuals/Handbooks:
Consumer Price Index Manual (ILO)
Producer Price Index Manual (IMF)
Export and Import Price Index Manual (IMF)
Measuring Capital (OECD)
Measuring Productivity (OECD) …

3. Funding The RPPI Handbook project is funded by Eurostat,
under the auspices of the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (ILO, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, UNECE, World Bank)
and executed by a team led by Statistics Netherlands.

4. Team
Bert M. Balk – Statistics Netherlands (till 1 Feb 2011) and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Jan de Haan – Statistics Netherlands
W. Erwin Diewert – University of British Columbia
Marc Prud’homme – Statistics Canada and University of Ottawa
David Fenwick - consultant

5. Timing of activities May 2009 Start of the project
Nov Eurostat-IAOS-IFC Conference, BIS, Basel
May UNECE/ILO CPI Meeting: Version 1.0 presented
Dec Version 2.0 on line
Jan Version 3.0 on line
Feb This RPPI Workshop
May Final version should be ready

6. Contents Chapter Status 1. Preface NA 2. Introduction 3. Uses of RPPIs
4. Elements for a conceptual framework
5. Stratification methods
6. Hedonic regression methods
7. Repeat sales methods
Incom
8. Appraisal-based methods
plete
9. Land and structures decomposition

7. Contents (continued) Chapter Status 10. Data sources
11. Methods currently used
12. Empirical examples
13. Recommendations and guidelines
Bibliography
Glossary
Incomplete
Index NA

8. Purpose of this workshop
Presentation of Version 3.0 of the “Handbook on Residential Property Price Indices”.
To obtain feedback, comments and suggestions.
What comes next?