. 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 use of multilateral indexes is increasingly an accepted approach for incorporating scanner data in a Consumer Price …

only if all its links are described by the same almost ideal demand theory. This is demonstrated for a comprehensible set …