Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised a Training Course on 'Price Statistics' with the attendance of 57 participants from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of 14 Arabic speaking OIC countries on 10-12 October 2022 through an online video conferencing platform.

Mr. Dergham OBEIDAT, Head of Price Statistics Department at the Department of Statistics (DOS) of Jordan, conducted the course and covered the following topics:

• Introduction to price statistics
• Introduction to price indices
• Types of price indices
• How to build a price index
• How to choose the base year for building the price index
• Calculation of weights and the relative importance
• How to collect data from the field
• Uses of price indices

The presentations of the training course are available at this link.

For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php