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RESET示范项目的早期结果：家庭食品通胀
Early Results from the RESET Demonstration Project: Inflation in Food at Home
摘要
This paper presents early results from the RESET Demonstration Project, an initiative that constructs price and sales indices using item-level transactions data. The project’s overarching goal is to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of leveraging modern transactions data for economic measurement by pointing toward a future in which official economic statistics are rebuilt on 21st-century data and technology. The paper introduces new inflation measures for Food at Home and evaluates them on two fronts: how they compare to current official statistics and what they offer as novel measures that capture more accurately the dynamics of consumer choice. The paper also addresses the challenges of producing reliable and credible official statistics from item-level transactions data and reports findings on recent Food at Home inflation trends.
中文摘要
本文介绍了RESET示范项目的初步成果，该项目旨在利用单品级交易数据构建价格与销售指数。项目的总体目标是通过展望一个以21世纪数据和技术重建官方经济统计的未来，来展示利用现代交易数据进行经济测量的可行性与优势。本文提出了家庭食品的新通胀衡量指标，并从两个方面对其进行评估：一是与当前官方统计数据的比较，二是作为能够更准确捕捉消费者选择动态的新型指标所具有的价值。本文还探讨了利用单品级交易数据编制可靠且可信的官方统计所面临的挑战，并报告了近期家庭食品通胀趋势的研究发现。