TY - BOOK ED - International Monetary Fund ED - International Labour Office. TI - Consumer price index manual: theory and practice SN - 922113699X (pbk.) : U1 - R338.528 PY - 2004/// CY - Geneva, [Great Britain] PB - International Labour Office KW - Consumer price indexes KW - Prices N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The book measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. It is a key statistic for purposes of economic and social policy-making, especially monetary policy and social policy and has substantial and wide-ranging implications for governments, businesses and workers, as well as households ER -