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June 2005

A transaction price index for air travel

Janice Lent, Alan H. Dorfman

Research on a price index estimator based on data from a U.S. Department of Transportation survey involves testing unique imputation and across-time matching procedures; the resulting experimental index is compared with the official CPI series and the consumer expenditure deflator series used in National Accounts computations.

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