Papers & Publications

The International Comparison Program and Purchasing Power Parities

Australian Bureau of Statistics (AUS) describes ICP 2005 round as "the most comprehensive and firmly-based ICP round to date" in a feature article in the December issue of Australian Economic Indicators.

Technical briefing paper: Purchasing Power Parities - Statistics to Measure the World

This is a bulletin on how the ICP is measuring Purchasing Power Parities in the 2003-2006 round of the program.

International Comparisons of Housing (experience from the European Comparison Program), S. Sergeev, 2004

The Legacies of the 2005 International Comparison Program
Fred Vogel, World Bank and Dennis Trewin, Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Presented at the Conference of Commonwealth Statisticians, South Africa, September 2005

OECD: Volume 2 of Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures in OECD Countries, 1990

This report presents purchasing power parities (PPP) and the associated estimates of real GDP 1990 for the 24 OECD countries, calculated using the Geary-Khamis method of aggregation. 

OECD: Volume 1 of Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures in OECD Countries, 1985

This report presents purchasing power parities (PPP) and the associated estimates of real GDP for 1985 for the 22 OECD countries. 

Price and Volume Measures For non-Market Services, T.P. Hill, 1975

The Production Boundary and The Nature Of Output (With Special Reference To Health And Education), T.P. Hill.

Asia and Pacific: Purchasing Power Parity and Quantity Comparison for the ESCAP region, 1985

This report compares real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and purchasing power parities (PPP) among the eleven Asia & Pacific (ESCAP) members in 1985.

World: Comparisons of Real GDP and Purchasing Power, 1985

This publication makes available internationally comparable estimates of real gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure components of phase V on the International Comparison Program (ICP) with reference year 1985.

World Product and Income