At what price? [[electronic resource] ] : conceptualizing and measuring cost-of-living and price indexes / / Panel on Conceptual, Measurement, and Other Statistical Issues in Developing Cost-of-Living Indexes ; Charles L. Schultze and Christopher Mackie, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 332 p
• Disciplina: 338.5/28/0973
• Soggetto topico: Consumer price indexes - United States; Cost and standard of living - United States - Statistical methods; Prices - United States - Statistical methods; Economic indicators - United States; Index numbers (Economics)
• Altri autori: SchultzeCharles L MackieChristopher D
• Note generali: "Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-305) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- A COGI Versus a COLI, 2 -- The Scope or Domain of the Index, 3 -- Aggregation, 4 -- Accounting for Substitution Behavior, 5 -- Quality Change, 6 -- New Goods, 7 -- Outlets, 8 -- Pricing Medical Care, 9 -- Index Design and Index Purpose, 10 -- Data Collection, 11 -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Background, 13 -- Panel Charge and Report Organization, 17 -- Alternative Approaches: A COGI Versus a COLI, 18 -- Domain of the CPI, 19 -- Substitution, 21 -- Aggregation, 26 -- Changes in the Quality of Goods, 27 -- New Goods, 30 -- Outlet Substitution, 32 -- Stocks and Flows, 33 -- Index Purpose and Design, 35 -- Data Collection, 36 -- 2 CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PRICE AND -- COST-OF-LIVING INDEXES 38 -- Setting the Stage: What Are Price Indexes?, 41 -- The Theory of Price Indexes and Its Critics, 43 -- Two Perspectives, 57 -- Conclusions, 73 -- Technical Note: A Mathematical Approach to Price Indexes, 74 -- 3 INDEX DOMAIN 94 -- An Unconditional COLI: Conceptual Issues, 96 -- Measurement Problems, 98 -- Supplemental Indexes and Satellite Accounts, 101 -- Other Domain Issues, 102 -- Conclusion and Recommendation, 105 -- 4 EVOLVING MARKET BASKETS: ADJUSTING INDEXES -- TO ACCOUNT FOR QUALITY CHANGE 106 -- COLI and COGI Views of the Quality Change Problem, 109 -- Evidence from the Boskin Commission Report, 112 -- BLS Approaches to Quality Changes, 114 -- Hedonic Regression Methods, 122 -- Cautions and Recommendations, 140 -- Technical Note 1: Boskin Commission Estimates of -- Quality Change and New Goods Bias, 146 -- Technical Note 2: Mathematical Description of Hedonic Methods, 149 -- 5 NEW GOODS AND NEW OUTLETS 155 -- New Goods, 155 -- New Outlets, 167 -- 6 THE SPECIAL CASE OF MEDICAL SERVICES 178 -- Background, 178 -- Conceptual and Measurement Issues, 181 -- The Domain of Consumer Health Expenditures: -- Employers' Health Insurance Payments, 185 -- Direct Pricing of Health Insurance, 186 -- Recommendations, 188 -- 7 INDEX DESIGN AND INDEX PURPOSE 191 -- Indexing Public Transfer Payments, 192 -- Wage Bargains and Indexed Wages, 207 -- Indexing Private Contracts, 208 -- Inflation-Indexed Treasury Securities, 210 -- Indexing the Federal Income Tax System, 212 -- Measuring Output Changes, 214 -- Inflation Indicators for Macroeconomic Policy, 216 -- Technical Note: The CPI Versus the NIPA Price Index -- as an Inflation Measure, 219 -- 8 WHOSE INDEX? AGGREGATING ACROSS HOUSEHOLDS 222 -- Two Kinds of Heterogeneity, 223 -- Heterogeneity in Prices Paid and in Rates of Inflation, 225 -- The Consequences of Heterogeneity for Index Construction, 226 -- Group Indexes: Why the Current Data Collection System -- Cannot Produce Them, 226 -- A Price Index for the Elderly?, 228 -- The Conceptual Basis for Group Indexes, 229 -- How Might Data for Subgroup Indexes Be Assembled and -- What Would It Cost?, 232 -- Suggested Research and Testing, 235 -- Plutocratic Versus Democratic Weights, 237 -- Summary and Recommendation, 240 -- Technical Note 1: Aggregation and the "Representative Consumer," 241 -- Technical Note 2: Do Inflation Rates Differ by Age -- or Income Group?, 246 -- 9 DATA COLLECTION FOR CPI CONSTRUCTION 252 -- The Current Data Collection Process, 253 -- Alternative Data Collection Approaches, 264 -- Summary and Recommendations, 274 -- Technical Note: Additional Description of CPI Data Inputs, 276 -- APPENDIX: STATISTICAL DEFINITION AND -- ESTIMATION OF PRICE INDEXES 283 -- REFERENCES 293 -- GLOSSARY 307 -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PANEL MEMBERS AND STAFF 315 -- INDEX 319.
• Titolo autorizzato: At what price
• ISBN: 0-309-17079-6; 1-280-18469-8; 9786610184699; 0-309-51217-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780010903321
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