Index Number Issues in the Consumer Price Index
探讨了统计机构应测量的理论消费者价格指数是什么，固定基期拉氏指数与理论生活成本指数之间的偏差来源，以及偏差随通胀率变化的因素，并讨论了减少偏差的方法。
This paper addresses the following issues: what is an appropriate theoretical consumer price index that statistical agencies should attempt to measure; what are some of the possible sources of biases between the fixed base Laspeyres price index that statistical agencies produce and the theoretical cost-of-living index; and what factors will make the biases larger or smaller and how will the biases change as the general inflation rate changes? This paper addresses all of the issues mentioned above and discusses what statistical agencies can do to reduce the biases.