Scanner Data and Price Indexes

Every time you buy a can of tuna or a new television, its bar code is scanned to record its price and other information. These "scanner data" offer a number of attractive features for economists and statisticians, because they are collected continuously, are available quickly, and record prices for all items sold, not just a statistical sample. But scanner data also present a number of difficulties for current statistical systems.Scanner Data and Price Indexes assesses both the promise and the challenges of using scanner data to produce economic statistics. Three papers present the results of

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Feenstra, Robert C.
Other Persons:	Shapiro, Matthew D. (contributor)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Preisindex \| Price index \| Scanner \| Indexberechnung \| Index construction \| Theorie \| Theory \| Verbraucherpreisindex \| Consumer price index
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (404 p.)
Series:	NBER-Studies in Income and Wealth Studies in income and wealth ; v. 64 National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; v.64
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; I. Scanner Data in Official Statistics: Advancing the State of the Art; II. Aggregation across Time; III. Using Price Data to Study Market Structure; IV. Measuring Changes in Quality and Imputing Missing Observations; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
ISBN:	978-0-226-23965-1 ; 978-0-226-23966-8 ; 978-0-226-23965-1
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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