1. International Comparison Program 2011
Objectives of the Meeting
Michel Mouyelo-Katoula
Global Manager
International Comparison Program
Regional Coordinators Meeting
September 28-30, 2009
Washington DC

2. Outline Set Objectives for ICP 2011 Identify Main Work Areas
Define ICP 2011
Set Objectives for ICP 2011
Review Methodologies & Procedures
Identify Main Work Areas
Price & N.A. Experts: Division of Work

3. I C P International collaborative Partnership Define ICP 2011
A structured partnership between several international and national organizations
that establish and implement
jointly agreed systems and mechanisms
for planning, thinking, assembling resources, and
working together to accomplish
the common goal of generating world PPPs and
related statistics for the reference year 2011.

4. What do we want to achieve together?
Set Objectives for ICP 2011
What do we want to achieve together?
How?
Strategies
Methods
Survey Instruments
Validation framework
Data quality framework
When?
Overall timetable
Survey timetables
N.A. timetable
Data & Metadata transmission

5. Review Methodologies and Procedures
Learn from the past & improve
Regional and global lessons
What went well?
What needs to be improved?
Identify further areas of research
Introduce National Accounts work
Enhance NA-Prices consistency
Delineate the SNA part relevant to ICP
Agree on NA tasks to be undertaken
Agree on NA based validation of prices

6. Identify Main Work Areas`
Use Existing Methods
Improve Implementation Tools
Develop New Method
Develop Core Items List
Data & Metadata Process
Quality Framework
1. Main price survey
2. Compensation of employees
3. Public health services
4. Private health services
5. Pharmaceutical products
6. Public education services
7. Private education
8. Housing
9. Equipment
10. Construction
11. GDP Expenditures

7. Price & N.A. Experts: Division of Work
Price Experts
Both
NA Experts
Price & N.A. Experts: Division of Work `
Classification
List of core items
Data collection
Validation
Compilation
Main survey on household consumption
Other surveys
GDP Expenditures

8. THANKS