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The treatment of unmatched items in rolling year GEKS price indexes: Evidence from New Zealand scanner data. Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands Frances Krsinich, Statistics New Zealand. Geneva, May 2012. Outline.
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The treatment of unmatched items in rolling year GEKS price indexes: Evidence from New Zealand scanner data Jan de Haan, Statistics Netherlands Frances Krsinich, Statistics New Zealand Geneva, May 2012
Outline • Why traditional methods won’t work with scanner data- churn- price/quantity spiking • RYGEKS • Imputation Tornqvist RYGEKS (ITRYGEKS) • Results on NZ consumer electronics data Geneva 2012
% June 2008 models still available Geneva 2012
Churn Geneva 2012
Digital cameras Geneva 2012
Specification 1 Specification 2 Specification 3 Specification 4 January (1) February (2) March (3) Tornqvist: Geneva 2012 6
Specification 1 Specification 2 Specification 3 Specification 4 January (1) February (2) March (3) Geneva 2012
Imputation Tornqvist RYGEKS(the weighted time dummy method) Geneva 2012
Volatility Geneva 2012
Aggregated to ‘consumer electronics’ Geneva 2012