Can Electronic Point-of-Sale (POS) Data Improve the Australian Consumer Price Index?

该项目将研究如何利用新的数据来源来提高用于政策制定的价格指数的准确性，例如消费者价格指数。产品采用条形码标签为统计机构提供了关于所购商品价格和数量的信息丰富的“扫描数据”来源。该项目将与澳大利亚统计局合作，开发数学和统计方法，以利用这一新的数据来源。这一发现将有助于改善物价指数，进而改善许多依赖于这些指数的政府政策。

This project will investigate how new sources of data can be used to improve the accuracy of price indexes that are used in policy formation, such as the consumer price index. The adoption of bar-code labelling for products has provided statistical agencies with an information-rich source of 'scanner data' on prices and quantities of purchased goods. In collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this project will develop mathematical and statistical methods for exploiting this new data source. The findings will contribute to the improvement of price indexes, and subsequently the many government policies that depend on these indexes.