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The Canadian Consumer Price Index: A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

A. D. Holmes
A. D. Holmes*
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
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Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , May 1964 , pp. 245 - 252
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1964

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References

1 Asimakopulos, A., “The Canadian Consumer Price Index,” this Journal XXIX, 08, 1963, 376–85Google Scholar, hereafter referred to as Review Article.

2 DBS 62-518, The Consumer Price Index for Canada (1949=100) (Revision Based on 1957 Expenditures) (Ottawa, 03, 1961)Google Scholar, hereafter referred to as Consumer.

3 Review Article, 376.

4 Consumer, 7.

5 Review Article, 377.

6 An exception is houses, for which a replacement concept was retained for reasons stated later herein.

7 Review Article, 378.

8 Consumer, 7 (italics are mine).

9 Review Article, 378.

10 Ibid., 379.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid.

13 Selected References: US Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Government Price Statistics, Hearings, Part 1, Jan. 24, 1961 (Washington, DC, 1981), 35–9.Google Scholar Adelman, Irma and Griliches, Zvi, “On an Index of Quality Change,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, LVI, 09, 1961, 535.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Gilbert, Milton, “The Problem of Quality Changes and Index Numbers,” Monthly Labor Review, LXXXIV, 09, 1961, 992.Google Scholar Griliches, Zvi, “Quality Change and Index Numbers: A Critique,” with Reply by Gilbert, Milton, Monthly Labor Review, LXXXV, 05, 1962, 542.Google Scholar Jaszi, George, “An Improved Way of Measuring Quality Change,” Review of Economics and Statistics, XLIV, 08, 1962, 332.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

14 Review Article, 380.

15 Ibid.

16 Consumer, 15.

17 Review Article, 382.

18 Ibid., 385.