PLENARY SESSION
TUESDAY, 07 MAY
16:00 - 17:30 - Invited lecture by Prof. Erwin Diewert:
"Quality Adjustment and Hedonics: A unified approach"
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WEDNESDAY, 08 MAY
10:30 – 12:00 - Session 1: New data sources to compile price indices
Chairperson: Patrick Kelly
Jens Mehrhoff: Towards a new paradigm for scanner data price indices: applying big data techniques to big data
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Jan de Haan: Scanner Data in the CPI: The Imputation CCDI Index Revisited
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Anna Bobel, Jacek Białek: Comparison of Price Index Methods for CPI Measurement using Scanner Data
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13:30 - 15:00 - Session 2: Pricing seasonal products
Chairperson: Roberto Olinto
Patrick Kelly, Matlhatsi Ratswana: Missing in action: testing alternative imputation methods in price statistics
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Corinne Becker Vermeulen: Pricing seasonal products: the imputation techniques
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Kristiina Nieminen, Yrjö Vartia, Antti Suoperä, Satu Montonen: Chain Error as a Function of Seasonal Variation
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15:30 - 16:30 - Session 3: New data sources to compile price indices (II)
Chairperson: Jens Mehrhoff
Rafael Posse, Jorge Alberto Moreno: Use of Big Data in modern markets coexisting with traditional markets data
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Andrew Tomadini, Michael Holt: Experimental clothing indexes using Australian web scraped data
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16:30 - 17:30 - Poster session/Room document
17:30 - 19:00 - Session 4: Other topics (I)
Chairperson: Jan de Haan
Ludwig von Auer: The Nature of Chain Drift: Implications for Scanner Data Price Indices
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Kota Watanabe, Tsutomu Watanabe, Kozo Ueda: Storable Goods, Chain Drifts, and the Cost of Living Index: New Methodology and Application to Japanese Data
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Antonio G. Chessa: A comparison of index extension methods for multilateral methods
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THURSDAY, 09 MAY
09:00 - 10:30 - Session 5: New data sources to compile price indices (III)
Chairperson: Jens Mehrhoff
Edward Rowland: Machine learning for classification with big data in price statistics production pipelines
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Olivia Ståhl, Peter Nilsson: Towards a Roadmap for Efficient Use of Eletronic Transaction Data in the Swedish CPI
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Manuel I. Bertolotto: Online Price Index with Product Replacement: The Closest Match Approach
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11:00 - 12:30 - Session 6: Compiling housing price indices
Chairperson: David Fenwick
Rósmundur Guðnason: Owner occupied housing in the Icelandic CPI, a survey of simple user cost for a quarter of a century
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Paulo Picchetti: Residential Price Indexes using different sources of information
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Kate Burnett-Isaacs, Erwin Diewert, Ning Huang: Developing Land and Structure Price Indexes for Ottawa Condominium Apartments
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14:00 - 15:00 - Session 7: Index number formulae
Chairperson: Ludwig von Auer
Ragnhild Nygaard, Li-Chun Zhang, Ingvild Johansen: Evaluating unit-value price indices in a dynamic item universe
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Claude Lamboray: Elementary aggregation: A not so elementary story!
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FRIDAY, 10 MAY
09:00 - 10:00 - Session 8: Quality adjustment
Chairperson: Brian Graf
Jean-Denis Zafar, Stéphanie Himpens: Webscraping laptop prices to esktimate hedonic models and extensions to other predictive methods
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Elisabeth Wieland: Measuring price dynamics of package holidays with transaction data
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10:30 - 12:00 - Session 9: New data sources to compile price indices (IV)
Chairperson: Antonio Chessa
Tanya Flower: Using alternative data sources in consumer prices, UK
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Lincoln Teixeira da Silva, Ingrid Luquett de Oliveira, Vladimir G. Miranda, Tiago Dantas: Studies of new data sources and techniques to improve CPI compilation in Brazil
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Can Tongur: Challenging the CES assumption with scanner data – pitfalls of the fixed basket
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13:30 – 14:30 - Poster session/Room document
14:30 - 15:30 - Session 10: Other topics (II)
Chairperson: Paulo Picchetti
Doron Sayag, Danny Pfeffermann, Dan Benhur: Reducing Revisions in Israel’s House Price Index with Nowcasting Models
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Brian Graf, Margarida Martins: Update of the CPI Manual
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POSTER SESSION (I)
WEDNESDAY, 08 MAY 16:00 – 19:00
New data sources to compile price indices
Tanya Flower: Task Team on Scanner Data
Hideaki Nakamura: Improving the accuracy of the CPI by using big data in Japan
Federico Polidoro: Combining data coming from scanner, traditional CPI data collection and other sources to compile sub-national PPPs in Italy
Ken Van Loon: Redefining what products are in the context of scanner data and web scraping, experiences from Belgium
Merav Oren-Yiftach: Automatic data collection in the Israeli CPI: measuring the sharing economy in the sector of short term rentals and web scraping for flights and hotels
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Compiling housing price indices
Andrew Tomadini, Ruvani Ratnayake: Opportunities and challenges: Leveraging alternate data sources to compile the CPI Rents Index
Kate Burnett-Isaacs, Steve Martin: Unified Approach to Statistics Canada’s Residential Property Price Index
Luiz Andrés Paixão: Hedonic price methods and real estate price index: an explanatory study for apartments market in Belo Horizonte, Brazil from 2004 to 2015
Fred Barzyc, Roobina Keshishbanoosy: A new hedonic rent index methodology for Canada
Price statistics that meet multiple user needs
Majed Skaini: Synergies between CPIs and PPPs and integration of survey activities’
ROOM DOCUMENTS
Vladimir G. Miranda, Pedro Kislanov da Costa, Rodrigo Ventura: Consumer price indices at IBGE: 40 years and counting
Other topics
Jan Walschots: Changing baskets in the CPI
Rodrigo Ventura: Challenges of Using National Accounts for a More Frequent Update of the Brazilian CPI Weights
POSTER SESSION (II)
FRIDAY, 10 MAY 14:00-15:00
New data sources to compile price indices
Paul Pascoe, Fiona Smillie: Creating a digital Food Price Index from Web-Scraped Data
Sara Heledd Thomas: The use of approximate expenditure weights for web scraped data in consumer price indices
Jens Mehrhoff: Promoting the use of a publically available scanner data set in price index research and for capacity building
Martti Korhonen: New Data Sources for Rental and Housing Price Statistics in Finland
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Andrew Tomadini: Experimental clothing indexes using Australian web scraped data
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Compiling housing price indices
Brian Graf, Vanda Guerreiro: Residential property price index PRACTICAL COMPILATION GUIDE
Paulo Fernando Mahaz Simões: A model based approach to produce comercial and residential property price indices
Kate Burnett-Isaacs: Resale Residential Property Price Index (rRPPI) Methodology
Quality adjustment
Bernhard Goldhammer, Raffaella Traverso, Lukas Henkel: Bias related to the bridged-overlap method
Tanya Flower, Christopher Payne: Quality Adjustment Review of UK Consumer Price Statistics
Index number formulae
Can Tongur: A recursive Jevons formulation
Other topics
Mone Imamura, Taroh Nakayama: Services in the Japanese CPI – Some Examples
Plinio Leal dos Santos, Vladimir G. Miranda: Outlier detection for the National System of Costs Survey and Indices of Civil Construction (Sinapi) at The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Antonio G. Chessa: MARS: A method for defining products and linking barcodes of item relaunches
Gustavo Vitti Leite, Lincoln Teixeira da Silva, Vladimir G. Miranda, Marcelo Rubens do Amaral, Plinio Leal dos Santos: Measurement of two services components basket of the Brazilian Consumer Price Index (CPI) using the National Household Sample Survey (PNADC) as data source
