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 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 332 p |
Disciplina | 338.5/28/0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SchultzeCharles L
MackieChristopher D |
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) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-18469-8
9786610184699 0-309-51217-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456437503321 |
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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 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 332 p |
Disciplina | 338.5/28/0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SchultzeCharles L
MackieChristopher D |
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) |
ISBN |
0-309-17079-6
1-280-18469-8 9786610184699 0-309-51217-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780010903321 |
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At what price? : 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 |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 332 p |
Disciplina | 338.5/28/0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SchultzeCharles L
MackieChristopher D |
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) |
ISBN |
0-309-17079-6
1-280-18469-8 9786610184699 0-309-51217-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Cost-of-living and price indexes |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826237703321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2002 | ||
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Beyond the market [[electronic resource] ] : designing nonmarket accounts for the United States / / Katharine G. Abraham and Christopher Mackie, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.373 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AbrahamKatharine G
MackieChristopher D |
Soggetto topico |
Accounting - United States
Social accounting - United States National income - Accounting |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-17377-7
9786610173778 0-309-54592-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450012503321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2005 | ||
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Beyond the market [[electronic resource] ] : designing nonmarket accounts for the United States / / Katharine G. Abraham and Christopher Mackie, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.373 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AbrahamKatharine G
MackieChristopher D |
Soggetto topico |
Accounting - United States
Social accounting - United States National income - Accounting |
ISBN |
0-309-16540-7
1-280-17377-7 9786610173778 0-309-54592-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783336803321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2005 | ||
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Beyond the market : designing nonmarket accounts for the United States / / Katharine G. Abraham and Christopher Mackie, editors |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 339.373 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AbrahamKatharine G
MackieChristopher D |
Soggetto topico |
Accounting - United States
Social accounting - United States National income - Accounting |
ISBN |
0-309-16540-7
1-280-17377-7 9786610173778 0-309-54592-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accounting and Data Foundations -- 3 Home Production -- 4 The Role of the Family in the Production of Human Capital -- 5 Education -- 6 Health -- 7 The Government and Private Nonprofit Sectors -- 8 The Environment -- References -- Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820280303321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, 2005 | ||
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Improving access to and confidentiality of research data [[electronic resource] ] : report of a workshop / / Christopher Mackie and Norman Bradburn, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 62 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 651.5/04261 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MackieChristopher D
BradburnNorman M |
Collana | Compass series |
Soggetto topico |
Medical records
Medical ethics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-309-51381-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455994803321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2000 | ||
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Improving access to and confidentiality of research data [[electronic resource] ] : report of a workshop / / Christopher Mackie and Norman Bradburn, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 62 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 651.5/04261 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MackieChristopher D
BradburnNorman M |
Collana | Compass series |
Soggetto topico |
Medical records
Medical ethics |
ISBN |
0-309-17159-8
0-309-51381-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778614703321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2000 | ||
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Improving access to and confidentiality of research data : report of a workshop / / Christopher Mackie and Norman Bradburn, editors |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 62 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 651.5/04261 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MackieChristopher D
BradburnNorman M |
Collana | Compass series |
Soggetto topico |
Medical records
Medical ethics |
ISBN |
0-309-17159-8
0-309-51381-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Data Access, Confidentiality Tradeoff -- 3 Ethical and Legal Requirements Associated with Data Dissemination -- 4 Alternative Approaches for Limiting Disclosure Risks and Facilitating Data Access -- 5 Current Agency and Organization Practices -- References and Bibliography -- APPENDIX A Workshop Participants -- APPENDIX B Workshop Agenda. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816713003321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2000 | ||
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Improving business statistics through interagency data sharing [[electronic resource] ] : summary of a workshop / / Steering Committee for the Workshop on the Benefits of Interagency Business Data Sharing, Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies, Caryn Kuebler and Christopher Mackie, rapporteurs |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 143 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 650.072/7 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KueblerCaryn
MackieChristopher D |
Soggetto topico | Commercial statistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-60448-4
9786610604487 0-309-66282-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451771803321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2006 | ||
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