1. Ag.No. 10.1 Price statistics briefing (b) ECP
Doc.A6465/18/11 + appendices
Ag.No Price statistics briefing (b) ECP
Working Group on Articles 64 and 65 of the Staff Regulations
Meeting in Luxembourg March 2018

2. Content of this presentation
Framework
Reports/Assessment
Data
Publications
Surveys (Consumer goods and services)
Alina-Maria Preda, ESTAT unit C4

3. EUROSTAT-OECD Programme
Regulation: Council/EP 1445/2007
Regulation: EU 2015/1163
Manual: Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities version
Regulation: Council/EP 193/2011

4. EUROSTAT-OECD Programme
Regulation: Council/EP 1445/2007
Regulation: EU 2015/1163
Manual: Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities version
Regulation: Council/EP 193/2011
Specific
up-to-date
guidelines
for each survey

5. EUROSTAT-OECD Programme
Regulation: Council/EP 1445/2007
Regulation: EU 2015/1163
Manual: Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities version
Regulation: Council/EP 193/2011
Quality control

6. Assessment of countries' practices

7. Data Annual PPPs for 37 countries
Derived indicators: PLIs, expenditures in PPPs, per capita volume indices, convergence indicators
61 categories
Starting with 1995
Scaled to EU28=100, EU27=100, EU15=100

8. Data 2016 First preliminary results 2016 Preliminary results
2015 Semi-final results
2014 Final results

9. Data Updates in June and December

10. Publications News releases Articles – SE
Volume index of AIC per capita in PPPs
Volume index of GDP per capita in PPPs
Price levels for consumer goods and services
Articles – SE
GDP per capita, consumption per capita, price level indices
Comparative price levels of consumer goods and services
Comparative price levels for food, beverages and tobacco
Comparative price levels for investment

11. PPP Working Group Standard topics
Work plan
PPP Inventories
Surveys
Methodologies
Results

12. PPP Work plan Work plan – includes main steps of the PPP surveys
Work plan – includes detailed steps on Consumer goods surveys, Capital Goods surveys
Work plan – includes the plan of meetings
Work plan – includes dates of the news releases and publications
2018 Work-plan approved in November 2017
by the PPP Working Group

13. Surveys Consumer goods and services Capital goods Housing services
Government services
Energy
Health
Education

14. Surveys Consumer goods and services Capital goods Housing services
Government services
Energy
Health
Education
Machinery and Equipment
Construction

15. Surveys Consumer goods and services Capital goods Housing services
Government services
Health
Energy
Education

16. Surveys Consumer goods and services Capital goods Housing services
Government services
Health
Energy
Education
Food, Drinks and Tobacco
Personal Appearance
House and Garden
Transport, Restaurants and Hotels
Services
Furniture and Health

17. Surveys Preview, Planning Pre-survey, Item list
Price collection, Intra-country Validation
Inter-country Validation, Evaluation

18. Survey: Preview, Planning Furniture and Health Food, Drinks and Tobacco Personal Appearance
Methodology (review)
Specific market situations (questionnaire)
Structure of the item list

19. Survey: Pre-survey, Item list Services Furniture and Health Food, Drinks and Tobacco
Products
Commonly bought by households
Available in more than one country
Representative
Comparable

20. Survey: Pre-survey, Item list

21. Survey: Price collection, Validation Services Furniture and Health
Collection of price data
Incl.
Selection of outlets
Prices to be collected
Assigning representativity
Intra-country validation

22. Survey: Validation, Evaluation House and garden Transport, Restaurants and Hotels Services
Inter-country validation
Comparison of results across countries
Plausibility of resulting PPPs
Assessment of results (survey results, annual national results)

23. Thank you for your attention!