Author/Editor: Michael Stanger.

Release Date:January, 2020

Monthly economic indicators support policy analysis of current economic developments and forecasting. This paper presents an overview of the data and statistical requirements to develop those more...

Author/Editor: Francien Berry, Brian Graf, Michael Stanger, Mari Ylä-Jarkko.

Release Date:July, 2019

The consumer price index (CPI) is a key economic indicator used to gauge inflation, adjust wages, pensions, and social benefits. The producer prices index (PPI) is used for forecasting and deflating more...

Author/Editor: Michael Stanger.

Release Date:October, 2018

A Supply and Use Table (SUT) serve to increase the quality of GDP and related aggregates by providing a framework to detect and resolve inconsistencies in data sources. SUTs are also a powerful more...

Author/Editor: Francien Berry, Massimiliano Iommi, Michael Stanger, Louis Venter.

Release Date:March, 2018

This paper examines the status of GDP compilation in 189 economies against six key criteria that describe national accounts compilation practices: whether the benchmark year is up to date, the more...

Author/Editor: Marco Marini, Robert Dippelsman, Michael Stanger.

Release Date:January, 2018

In March 2017, the IMF published an upgrade of its Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) dataset. This paper documents the new methodology that has been developed to estimate missing more...

Author/Editor: Thomas F Alexander, Claudia H Dziobek, Marco Marini, Eric Metreau, Michael Stanger.

Release Date:February, 2017

To derive real GDP, the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) recommends a technique called double deflation. Some countries use single deflation techniques, which fail to capture important more...