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Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory, 2025

June 30, 2025

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International Monetary Fund, International Labour Office, Statistical Office of the European Communities, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and World Bank. Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory, 2025, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2025) accessed June 30, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229014137.069

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Summary

The Theory publication and the companion on the practice of compiling consumer price indices (CPIs) is jointly published by the member agencies of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (IWGPS): the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the IMF, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the World Bank. The IMF managed the update of the Theory publication and the CPI Manual. Drafting of this publication was led by Erwin Diewert with support from various authors. The Theory publication will be translated into Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Cost of living, Depreciation, Expenditure, Export fluctuations, Housing, Inflation, International trade, Land prices, National accounts, Price indexes, Prices

Keywords: Consumer price index, Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Cost of living, CPI, CPI theory, Depreciation, Export fluctuations, Housing, Inflation, Land prices, Price indexes

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