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Paper: ewp-data/9612001
From: barnett@wuecon.wustl.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:36:10 -0600 (CST)   ( 47kb + 8kb + 9kb + 8kb + 9kb + 8kb + 9kb + 9kb + 9kb + 9kb + 10kb )

Title:  STATISTICS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT:  IMPROVING THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Author:  William A.  Barnett (Washington University) and Katharine G.
Abraham (Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics) and Robert J.  Gordon
(Northwestern University) and Jack E.  Triplett (Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Dept. of Commerce) and David W.  Wilcox (Federal Reserve Board)
and Kirk M.  Wolter (NORC and U. of Chicago)
Contact: barnett@wuecon.wustl.edu
Comments:  Type of Document - Microsoft Word; prepared on Macintosh; to print on
PostScript; pages: 10 ; figures: included (10).  This document includes the
transcript of a tape recorded statement by William A.  Barnett and the following
panel discussion on the subject of the Consumer Price Index.  The tape recording
was from an invited session at the annual meetings of the American Statistical
Association in Chicago in 1996.  This full transcript will appear in the
American Statistical Association 1996 Proceedings of the Section on Government
Statistics.  See http://econwpa.wustl.edu:80/~barnett/ on the web.
Keywords: Fisher Ideal Index, Historical Price Indexes, Historical Quantity Indexes, Splicing
JEL: J0 E4 N1
EWPA-references:
Report-no: WAB-96-10
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