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Welcome to the 18th meeting of Ottawa Group. The Ottawa Group is a city group set up under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. The meeting will be hosted by Statistics Canada and Bank of Canada from Monday to Wednesday, May 13 – 15, 2024. This meeting will also mark 30 years since the Ottawa Group was formed in 1994. We will celebrate this important milestone of the Ottawa Group with a special panel discussion on the state of research and practice of CPI methodology and challenges ahead.
The topics for discussion at the meeting include, but are not limited to, the following:
May 13, 2024 08:30All in-person sessions will take place at the Bank of Canada, in the Conference Centre. To enter the Bank, please use the entrance to the Bank of Canada Museum, located at 30 Bank Street (corner of Bank and Wellington Streets) and bring a piece of government-approved photo identification.
May 13, 2024 08:45May 13, 2024 08:50Jennifer Withington (Assistant Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada)
May 13, 2024 09:00Presentation 1: Inflation measurement with high frequency data | Kevin Fox, Peter Levell and Martin OConnell (University of New South Wales - Australia), Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK), University of Wisconsin-Madison (US)).
Presentation 2: For I Was Conscious That I Knew Nothing At All | Jens Mehrhoff (International Monetary Fund).
May 13, 2024 10:00May 13, 2024 10:30Presentation 1: Combining Hedonic with Multilateral Indexes for Turnover and Chain Drift in Transactions Data Consumer Price Indexes
Gregory Kurtzon (Bureau of Labor Statistics, US).
Presentation 2: A comparison of rolling window-based and similarity-linked multilateral indices using Canadian scanner data
Zachary Glazier and Clément Yélou (Statistics Canada).
Presentation 3: The choice between bilateral and multilateral index for scanner data: Case study on Austrian grocery scanner data 2022-2023
Adam Tardos (Statistics Austria)
May 13, 2024 12:00May 13, 2024 13:30Presentation 1: Product Churn and Quality Adjustment: Using Scanner data of Laptop in Japan
Erwin Diewert and Chihiro Shimizu (The University of British Columbia, Hitotsubashi University)
Presentation 2: Seasonal adjustment of CPIs during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: main insights from NSO experience
Tom Arend, Jarmila Botev, Emmanuelle Guidetti, Annabelle Mourougane and Minsu Park (OECD)
Presentation 3: A practical implementation of Machine Learning Methods for Price Imputation
Botir Radjabov, Lucien May, Yu-Lin Huang and Claude Lamboray (STATEC, Luxembourg)
Presentation 4: Outlier detection for grocery scanner data in Consumer Price Statistics
Mario Spina and Liam Greenhough (Office for National Statistics, ONS)
May 13, 2024 15:15May 13, 2024 15:45Presentation 1: Product Churn and the GEKS-Törnqvist Price Index: The "Feenstra Adjustment"
Jan de Haan and Frances Krsinich (International expert and Statistics New Zealand)
Presentation 2: Multilateral Approaches in Inflation Measurement: Why Does the TPD Method Fail Us and Can We Do Something About It?
Ludwig von Auer and Sebastian Weinand (Universität Trier, Eurostat)
Presentation 3: Higher-Level Aggregation with Long-Term Links - An Application to the Swedish CPI
Olivia Ståhl (Statistics Sweden)
Presentation 4: A new elementary index the equal share counterpart of the Walsh index
Yuri Dikhanov (World Bank)
May 14, 2024 08:55May 14, 2024 09:00Special update: UN Task Team on Scanner Data 2024 Update
Tanya Flower, Serge Goussev and Federico Polidoro
Presentation 1: A framework for the games of chance index calculation in the HICP
Pavel Belchev (Eurostat)
Presentation 2: A measure for the similarity of time series
Bernhard Goldhammer (European Central Bank)
Presentation 3: Exploring the Impact of Differences in Price Quotations on Elementary Indices in Consumer Price Index (CPI): Lessons Learned from Missing Quotations in Rural Areas and Biased Imputation with Urban Data
Kabeli Mefane (Statistics Lesotho)
May 14, 2024 10:30Parallel poster presentations.
May 14, 2024 10:30Practical overview on compiling consumer price indices with alternative data: best practices on key topics faced by NSOs
Leads: Tanya Flower, Serge Goussev and Federico Polidoro
May 14, 2024 12:30May 14, 2024 13:30Presentation 1: Is it still possible to publish a single consumer price index that satisfies all needs?
Corinne Becker (Office fédéral de la statistique, Switzerland)
Presentation 2: Age, Income and Region Specific CPI, and Consumption Inequality
Naohito Abe and Noriko Inakura (Hitotsubashi University (Japan), Shikoku University (Japan))
Presentation 3: Data collection frequency and inflation uncertainty
Luigi Palumbo and Tiziana Laureti (Statistics Italy)
Presentation 4: HICP and national CPI in Germany - as similar as possible, as different as needed
Thomas A. Knetsch, Dilyana Popova and Patrick Schwind (Deutsche Bundesbank).
May 14, 2024 15:15May 14, 2024 15:45Presentation 1: Estimating shrinkflation in the traditional data collection and by using scanner data
Alessandro Brunetti, Tiziana Laureti and Federico Polidoro (Statistics Italy and World Bank)
Presentation 2: Beyond the CPI: Producing analytical measures of inflation using outputs from the CPI
Leigh Merrington (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Presentation 3: Online price data, high frequency inflation measures, and formulation of monetary policy in New Zealand
Alan Bentley, Karsten Chipeniuk and Frances Krsinich (Statistics New Zealand)
Presentation 4: Timely updates of weights for the Brazilian Personal Consumption Expenditures Index
André Furtado Braz, Matheus Souza Peçanha and Paulo Picchetti (Instituto Brasileiro de Economia – Fundação Getulio Vargas (IBRE/FGV))
May 15, 2024 08:55May 15, 2024 09:00Presentation 1: Mitigating the impact of misclassification on price statistics when applying machine learning for classification of data from alternative sources
William Spackman, Christian Ritter, Serge Goussev, Greg DeVilliers (Statistique Canada)
Presentation 2: Statistics Canada's methodology for integrating transaction data in the cellular services price index
Joseph Waihenya, Maria Rosario Reyes and Clément Yélou (Statistics Canada)
Presentation 3: Evolution of the GEKS index
Jacek Białek (Statistics Poland and University of Lodz)
May 15, 2024 10:15May 15, 2024 10:45Presentation 1: Exploring different index methods for short-term rentals
Ken Van Loon (Statistics Belgium)
Presentation 2: Measuring Rental Price Changes for Prospective Tenants Using Rental Listings Microdata
Huang and Wang (Statistics Canada)
Presentation 3: Modelled rental prices and their effect on price indices Using electronic data for the rent index: child's play?
Ben Hillman and Tony Liu (Office for National Statistics, UK)
Presentation 4: Using electronic data for the rent index: childs play?
Corinne Becker and Muriel Mundwiler (Office fdral de la statistique, Switzerland)
May 15, 2024 12:30May 15, 2024 13:30Chair: David Fenwick
Panel members:
• Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia)
• Jan de Haan (International Price Statistics Expert)
• Randi Johannessen (Statistics Norway)
• Jens Mehrhoff (IMF)
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