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BLS Handbook of Methods

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  • Handbook Contents
  • Table of Contents
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  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Employment and Unemployment Statistics
    • Chapter 1. Labor force data derived from the Current Population Survey
    • Chapter 2. Employment, hours, and earnings from the establishment survey
    • Chapter 3. Occupational employment statistics
    • Chapter 4. Measurement of unemployment in States and local areas
    • Chapter 5. Employment and wages covered by unemployment insurance
    • Chapter 6. Mass layoff statistics
    • Chapter 7. National longitudinal surveys
  • Compensation and Working Conditions
    • Chapter 8. National compensation measures
  • Occupational Safety and Health
    • Chapter 9. Occupational safety and health statistics
  • Productivity and Technology
    • Chapter 10. Productivity measures: Business sector and major subsectors
    • Chapter 11. Industry productivity measures
    • Chapter 12. Foreign labor statistics
  • Economic Growth and Employment Projections
    • Chapter 13. Economic growth and employment projections
  • Prices and Living Conditions
    • Chapter 14. Producer prices
    • Chapter 15. International price indexes
    • Chapter 16. Consumer expenditures and income
    • Chapter 17. Consumer price index
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Chapter 15.
International Price Indexes

Background
Concepts
Data Sources
Sampling
Pricing
Index Construction
Publication
Uses and Limitations
Technical References

 

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