This second edition of the SPPI Guide develops further the conceptual framework and adds detailed descriptions of PPI measurement for a wide range of individual service industries.

The International Producer Price Index Manual, Theory and Practice (PPI Manual) published by the IMF in 2004 consituted a landmark for international standards on price measurement and contains detailed, comprehensive information for the compilation of producer price indices as well as an extensive coverage of the conceptual and theoretical issues. This second edition of the Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services (SPPI Guide) is a complement to the PPI Manual in two ways: it focuses on service-specific aspects in the PPI compilation by developing further the conceptual framework and it adds detailed descriptions of PPI measurement for a wide range of individual service industries. This second edition of the SPPI Guide has been jointly produced by the OECD, Eurostat, the members of a task Force with deleguates from 14 OECD/EU members countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States)and in synergy with the Voorburg Group. Several countries contributed to the Guide by providing descriptions of service PPIs for individual industries, other countries were represented by national experts in at least one meeting of the Task Force.

Complements the International Producer Price Index Manual (PPI Manual) published by the IMF in 2004, by adding detailed descriptions of PPI measurement in a series of specific service industries.

This manual gives a complete, detailed and up-to-date description of the Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme, including its organisation, the various surveys carried out by participating countries and the ways PPPs are calculated and disseminated. It also provides guidance on the use of PPPs.

The second edition of the SPPI Guide has been jointly produced by the OECD, Eurostat and a joint Eurostat-OECD Task Force set up to oversee the revision and updating of the 2005 edition of the SPPI Guide. The joint Eurostat-OECD Task Force was established in 2011 and met three times: on 14-15 April 2011 (Paris, OECD), 26-27 September 2011 (Newport, U.K., Office for National Statistics) and 26-27 April 2012 (Paris, OECD). The Task Force was chaired by Nadim Ahmad (OECD) and Paul Schreyer (OECD). Delegates from Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Mexico, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States participated in the Task Force. Several among them contributed to the Guide by providing detailed descriptions of their methodologies for compiling service PPIs; the others were represented by national experts in meetings of the Task Force.^André Loranger (Statistics Canada) officially represented the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics in the Task Force. The first three methodological chapters in the Guide were written by the OECD and Eurostat Secretariats, under the guidance of the Task Force. Anne-Sophie Fraisse (OECD) is the principal author, with support from Thomas Jaegers (Eurostat). Niall O'Hanlon (CSO Ireland) contributed significantly. Chapters 4 to 13 of the Guide, which mainly report country practices, were drafted under the responsibility of lead authors, again under the guidance of the Task Force: Dorothee Blang (Destatis), Paul Boling (Australian Bureau of Statistics), Johanna von Borstel (Destatis), Catherine Draper, (Statistics Canada), Anne-Sophie Fraisse (OECD), David Friedman (U.S.^Bureau of Labor Statistics), Denis Gac (INSEE), Alain Gallais (INSEE), Ildikó Hamvainé Holocsy (Statistics Hungary), Christopher Jenkins (Office for National Statistics United Kingdom), Hina Kikegawa (Bank of Japan), Michael Morgan (Australian Bureau of Statistics), Bonnie Murphy (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), Aspasia Papa (Office for National Statistics United Kingdom), Christian Puchter (Statistics Austria), Maria Schuch (Statistics Austria), Marcel Spanjaard (Statistics Netherlands), and Ruth Vizner (Central Bureau of Statistics Israel). Niall O'Hanlon (CSO Ireland) acted as the editor of the SPPI Guide with contributions from Anne-Sophie Fraisse (OECD). Eurostat and the OECD would like to thank all those who contributed by providing comments and suggestions to the improvement of this Guide.

A guide for constructing and using composite indicators for policy makers, academics, the media and other interested parties. In particular, this handbook is concerned with indicators which compare and rank country performance.

The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which prices of consumer goods and services change over time. It is used as a key indicator of economic performance, as well as in the setting of monetary and socio-economic policy such as indexation of wages and social security benefits, purchasing power parities and inflation measures. This manual contains methodological guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing and calculating CPIs, and also examines underlying economic and statistical concepts involved. Topics covered include: expenditure weights, sampling, price collection, quality adjustment, sampling, price indices calculations, errors and bias, organisation and management, dissemination, index number theory, durables and user costs.