Improved price index for condominiums

Price Index Estimation Using Price Imputation for Unsold Items

Although scanner price quotes and expenditures have great promise in improving the Consumer Price Index (CPI), their use has introduced new problems. One major problem confronting the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the treatment of an item that experiences no purchases during a particular time period. Either a price can be explicitly imputed for this item or it can be implicitly imputed by...

House Price Index Methodologies

National Hospital Input Price Index

The national community hospital input price index presented here isolates the effects of prices of goods and services required to produce hospital care and measures the average percent change in prices for a fixed market basket of hospital inputs. Using the methodology described in this article, weights for various expenditure categories were estimated and proxy price variables associated with ...

The Consumer Price Index and index number purpose1

The paper considers the use of a Consumer Price Index (CPI) for three possible purposes: (1) as a Cost of Living Index (COLI); i.e., as a measure of the relative cost of achieving the standard of living when facing two different sets of prices for the same group of commodities; (2) as a consumption deflator; i.e., the price change component for a decomposition of a value ratio into price and qu...

Goats: Condominiums for Parasites: What Should a Producer Do?

Losses caused by parasitic disease varies considerably from death to that of a minor annoyance. The differences may be due to geographic, genetic, or husbandry variability. Genetic differences between breeds and among individuals within breeds may greatly determine the effect the parasites have on their hosts. More important is the system of management which will lead to a greater or lesser exp...