The availability of large transaction level datasets, such as retail scanner data, provides a wealth of information on … multilateral index number methods for computing month-to-month inflation. …

bias and substitution bias. Multilateral index methods seem to be the best choice due to the dynamic character of scanner …A wide variety of retailers (supermarkets, home electronics, Internet shops, etc.) provide scanner data containing … information at the level of the barcode, e.g. the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). As scanner data provide complete transaction …