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Wage Price Index: Concepts, Sources and Methods

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Provides comprehensive information about the Wage Price Index (WPI) including concepts underlying the index and the data sources and methods used

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2012

Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Purposes and uses of the Wage Price Index

Chapter 3 - Historical background

Chapter 4 - Price index theory

Chapter 5 - Coverage and classifications

Chapter 6 - Sampling

Chapter 7 - Weights and their sources

Chapter 8 - Price collection

Chapter 9 - Quality change

Chapter 10 - Wage Price Index calculation in practice

Chapter 11 - Re-referencing and linking price indexes

Chapter 12 - Outputs and dissemination

Chapter 13 - The System of Price Statistics

Appendix 1 - WPI Weighting Pattern

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Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 6351.0.55.001.