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1st Session, Meeting of the Group of Experts on…

1st Session, Meeting of the Group of Experts on Consumer Price Indices

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The Expert Group meets every second year. The meetings are jointly organized by UNECE and ILO. The meetings serve as a forum for exchanging experiences in CPI compilation among national statistical offices and promoting the development and implementation of good practices and international recommendations in the area of CPI.
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Welcome and opening of the meeting
Session 1: New data sources and collection methods (I)
Session Chair: Claude Lamboray, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, Luxembourg 

Progress on Adopting Big Data in the US Consumer Price Index
Brendan Williams, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States 

CPI compilation method using web-scraping data including missing values
Akatani Toshihiko, Shibata Takuya, Statistics Bureau of Japan

Summary update from UN Task Team
Tanya Flower, Federico Polidoro, Serge Goussev, Collin Brown, Vladimir Miranda,UN Team on Scanner DataTask                               

Using non-traditional data sources for nowcasting CPI in the Central Bank of ArmeniaTigran Baghdasaryan, Central Bank of Armenia                               

Assessing food price dynamics in Italy: A spatial-temporal analysis using web-scraped dataIlaria Benedetti, Federico Crescenzi, Tiziana Laureti, Luigi Palumbo, Niccolò Salvini,
Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Bank of Italy
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