Apples and Oranges: Relative Growth Rate of Consumer Price Indices

Adding Apples and Oranges

We define a unit system for end-user spreadsheets that is based on the concrete notion of units instead of the abstract concept of types. Units are derived from header information given by spreadsheets. The unit system contains concepts, such as dependent units, multiple units, and unit generalization, that allow the classification of spreadsheet contents on a more fine-grained level than types...

Comparing apples and oranges ...

The most comprehensive and often-cited statistic about the U.S. economy is gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States. Estimates of GDP are the featured statistics in the National Income and Product Accounts, the construction of which involves the collection and aggregation of an immense amount of data. In the construction of real GDP, complica...

Comparing apples and oranges.

9. Calculating Consumer Price Indices in Practice

9.2 As a result of the greater insights into the properties and behaviour of price indices that have been achieved in recent years, it is now recognized that some traditional methods may not necessarily be optimal from a conceptual and theoretical viewpoint. Concerns have also been voiced in a number of countries about possible biases that may be affecting CPIs. These issues and concerns need t...

Apples in Amsterdam and oranges in Leiden

In this journal, Bosch and colleagues report their experience with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the Leiden region and report a very high survival rate to discharge of 43 % [1]. They analyse the factors that contributed to this high survival rate. Also, they note that this survival rate in the Leiden region is approximately three times higher than the European average. The factors th...