USES OF MODELS IN THE ESTIMATION OF PRICE INDEXES" A REVIEW

Price indexes are some of the key statistics published by national governments. The survey systems required to estimate indexes are often complex and involve solving a number of statistical problems, including sample design, variance component estimation, sample allocation to meet multiple goals, data adjustments specific to indexes, missing data imputations, and variance estimation for nonlinear estimators. This paper reviews some of the previous research in these areas and notes some of the topics that deserve future research.