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Activity Number: 399
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Government Statistics Section
Abstract #312332 View Presentation
Title: National Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI-Nu) of Argentina: General Features and Implementation
Author(s): Sebastian Gonzalez and Pablo Ezequiel Faifman*+ and Norberto Damian Itzcovich
Companies: INDEC and INDEC and INDEC
Keywords: CPI ; Argentina
Abstract:

For the first time in the country it was developed a National urban Consumer Price Index (CPI-Nu) representing the urban population of the whole country. In this paper, the new CPI-Nu indicator developed by the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina INDEC, its general characteristics and its implementation is presented. Relevant processes for the release and the various stages of production, including selection of the sample of local informants, the treatment of seasonal products, the processes of imputation and treatment of outlier values are also described.


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