Regional Comparisons of Prices, Income and Growth in Australia

我们将衡量澳大利亚八个首府城市的生活成本和通胀率有多大差异，然后测试各城市的真实的人均收入水平是否会随着时间的推移而趋同或分化。为了进行这样的比较，ABS关于每个首都城市的数据库必须首先统一。在这样做的同时，我们将审查澳大利亚统计局目前的数据建设和质量评估程序。另一个目的是显示如何使用生成树方法的统计建模可以解决的冲突，所产生的面板数据集之间的时间和空间的一致性构建的价格指数。

We will measure how much the cost of living and rates of inflation differ across the eight capital cities in Australia, and then test whether real per capita income levels across cities are converging or diverging over time. To make such comparisons, the ABS's databases on each capital city must first be harmonized. While doing this we will review the ABS's current procedures for data construction and quality assessment. A further aim is to show how statistical modelling using spanning-tree methods can resolve the conflict that arises for price indexes constructed on panel data sets between temporal and spatial consistency.