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International Comparison
Program
Regional Coordinator Workshop
Washington, DC
May 17-21, 2004
Workshop Objectives
Global and Regional Status
Actions taken since January 2004
Jointly agree on work plan and
time table—finish specs, Data
Collection—Ring, etc.
Determine training requirements
Tool Pack
Sampling and price collection
Actions Since Jan 2004
New Handbook Chapters
New Chapters ICP Manual- web
Introduction & Governance (1 &2)
GDP and Main Expenditure Aggr.(3)
Price Concepts and Quality (4)
Product List, Specifications (5)
Sampling and Price Collection (6)
Editing and Validation (7)
Government Services (8)
Capital Formation (9)
Basic Heading Parities (10)
Actions Since Jan 2004
New Handbook Chapters
Software
SPD process
Tool Pak documented, testing,
training
Two issues of ICP Newsletter
Electronic Discussion Groups
Fund Raising Effort
Funding Issues
Global Program<$2.0m deficit vs.
+6m last November.
2004 requirements--$no deficit
Major affect—support to countries
Fund raising—
World Bank
Regional Coordinating Organizations
Actions Since Jan 2004
TAG and Executive Board Meetings
Executive Board Actions
Target Comparison is Total GDP
July-Oct Begin Price collection
Housing, Health, Education, Gov’t,
and Capital Formation, Mid 2005
TAG Assess Indices-common ref. Pr
Approved Full Multilateral Ring
Ring Collection-one time-3rd qtr 05
Ring Comparison
Africa--Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, S. Africa
Asia—Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore,
Sri Lanka (Philippines)
CIS—Russia, Kazakhstan
Eurostat/OECD—UK, Japan, Estonia,
Slovenia (Australia)
W. Asia—Oman, Jordan
LAC—Brazil, Chile
Ring Comparison
Data Collection
July 2005
Africa--Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, S. Africa
Asia—Hong Kong, Malaysia,
Singapore,Sri Lanka
CIS—Russia, Kazakhstan
Eurostat/OECD—UK, Japan, Estonia,
Slovenia
W. Asia—Oman, Jordan
LAC—Brazil, Chile
Ring General Requirements
Regional Product Specs in English
Review/finalization using SPD
software
Data validation etc in Tool Pack
Executive Board Directions
Supplement Chapter 6-Sampling
Drafted
Ensure Chapter 7 sets editing rules
On web for discussion
Thoroughly Test Tool Pack
Underway-some completed
Prepare Advocacy Materials
Underway
Technical Advisory Group
Full Ring
Timing and recommended countries
Guidance on
Housing
Health
Education
Gov’t
Capital Formation
Technical Advisory Group
Full Ring
Timing and recommended countries
Guidance on
Housing
Date Collection—July 2005
Consultants preparing
Health
Specifications
Education
Gov’t
Capital Formation
Housing—Work Underway
Chapter for ICP Manual
Market rent vs user cost
Worksheet to obtain information
Structure of dwelling markets
• Availability of price and dwelling stocks
Basis for stratification of dwellings
Rental services Nat’l Accounts
Construction
Basket of Construction
components
SPD based methodology
Consultants develop SPDs other
regions
Capital Equipment
Questionnaire to countries
Exchange rate plus mark-ups
Countries importing equipment
Traditional Approach
Global Office coordinate
specifications
Health
Global Office Coordinate SPDs
WHO
Standard list of 200 medical products
Common medical procedures
Medical occupations most
representative and comparable
Government
Compensation of Employees
Global office develop worksheets
• Govt expenditures, capital consumption,
salaries
Obtain indicators of gov’t output
on health, education.
Use Reference PPPs for market
purchases
Poverty
May 25 Poverty Advisory Group
meeting
Tool Pack—Testing/Training
Test Criteria—300 situations
Asian list loaded
Practice Exercises
23 countries completed
User and installation
documentation prepared
Countries/regional coordinators
testing
Tool Pack Testing/ Training
Multilingual Software—Chinese,
Arabic, French, and Spanish May
21
Price Admin Module—national
averages—export to regions,
quaranta tables next
Field testing Canada, India, AfDB,
Uganda, Kuwait.
Issue—Specification review
Guidelines
Overview of best practices
Preliminary specs to global office
Final specs to Global office
• Load into tool pack
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Issues
Time table for price collection
Reference period
Housing, Government, FCF—
coordination with Ring collection
Ring- specs-communication,
funding, technical support
Tool Pack, training, installation
The Reality
The ICP process is being re-engineered
SPDs
Software
Ring
An investment in the future
Building systems as program is being
implemented—learning as we go
Workshop rules of the day
Open discussion encouraged
Work plan and time table decisions
are a joint agreement
Deliverables are a joint agreement
Fine to disagree as long as agree at
the end of the session