Purchasing power parities (prc_ppp)

1.1. Contact organisation

[CZ1] Czech Statistical Office

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Price Statistics / CPI section

1.3. Contact name

Confidential because of GDPR

1.4. Contact person function

Confidential because of GDPR

1.5. Contact mail address

Na padesátém 81 /100 82 Praha 10 — Strašnice /CZECH REPUBLIC

1.6. Contact email address

Confidential because of GDPR

1.7. Contact phone number

Confidential because of GDPR

1.8. Contact fax number

Confidential because of GDPR

2.1. Metadata last certified

24 February 2026

2.2. Metadata last posted

24 February 2026

2.3. Metadata last update

24 February 2026

3.1. Data description

See concept 3.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.1.1. Organisation

Czech Statistical Institute comprises of service units such as human resources management, financial and administration section, general methodology and registers section, macroeconomic statistics section, business statistics section, demography and social statistics section and regional offices in 14 regions. PPP exercise is in charge of macroeconomic statistics section which comprises of four departments:

• 4 MACROECONOMIC STATISTICS SECTION
• 41 National Accounts Department
• 42 Government and Financial Accounts Department
• 43 Prices Statistics Department
• 44 International Trade Statistics Department.

1.1.1.        Price Statistics Department Tasks

The Price Statistics Department has three units:

• 43 Prices Statistics Department
• 4301 Agricultural, Construction and Services Prices Statistics Unit
• 4302 Industrial and International Trade Prices Statistics Unit
• 4303 Consumer Prices Statistics Unit

The Price Statistics Department (mostly Consumer Price section) is responsible for the following parts:

• Consumer Price Survey,
• Equipment Goods Survey,
• Construction Projects Survey,
• Spatial Adjustment Coefficients,
• CPIs,
• Rent Survey for Article 64 of the Staff Regulation
• Energy survey
• Hospital Survey

The performance of the individual task is, however, shared with external experts. The Czech Statistical Office has since 1993 used external experts for pricing equipment goods and construction projects in all subsequent ECP/PPP rounds. The main reason is that the CZSO had not sufficient capacities and mainly knowledge for performing that task on the quality level that is necessary for the international price comparison program.

The investment goods market undergoes rapid changes, which are necessary to be followed. To price selected set of investment goods needs for most of the items special technical knowledge. As producers and sellers are very often not willing to provide sufficient and reliable information if asked official way, it is usually more appropriate to use experts, who have often good personal contacts with relevant people bidding equipment goods in the Czech market.

The specific reason for using external experts for construction projects is their special knowledge of norms and standards used in construction as well as the knowledge about representativity of the construction projects, their parts and possible substitutes in the real construction branch.

The Czech Statistical Office used the same experts as in previous years. The reason is not only in their specific knowledge, which could be hardly substituted in short time and which is necessary for performing the work within very tight deadlines, but also very good experience with the quality and reliability of their work in previous rounds.

The consumer price survey is done partly by the staff of the office and some temporarily hired collectors. The reason for this combination arises from the necessity to collect extra amount of data within short time during the survey itself, for which the office lacks resources. On the other hand, the checking and validation of the data needs experienced staff. The latter is valid namely for re-checking of data collected at their validation at Group Leader’s level. This staff also attends regular planning meetings at Group Leader twice a year and is also responsible for consumer price pre-survey.

CPIs adjusted for the PPP purposes and Spatial adjustment coefficients are produced based on the same information, which is used for the regular CPI production.

Rent Survey for Article 64 of the Staff Regulation is a PPP side-task done in cooperation with an Eurostat or OECD expert. The role of the Czech Statistical Office is to organize meetings with selected real-estate agencies and check the results after these have been done by the experts.

Energy survey is part of regular price collection for Eurostat. The data collection is based on a voluntary agreement and complements the data collection of gas and electricity prices for industrial users as specified in Council Directive 90/377/EEC. The data are collected mainly from tariffs published by energy distribution companies.

Hospital survey is subcontrated by external institute specialized for the data collection from health insurance companies. It is the only company which has access to the data necessary for this project.

1.1.2.        National Accounts Tasks

In September 2014 the process on compilation of Czech national accounts little bit changed due to organisational changes. Before, there were two departments: Annual National Accounts Department, Quarterly National Accounts Department. Newly there are also two departments which both consist of three units:

• 41 National Accounts Department
• 4101 Sectoral Accounts Unit
• 4102 Input-Output Tables Unit
• 4103 Quarterly Estimates Unit
• 42 Government and Financial Accounts Department
• 4201 Government Accounts Unit
• 4202 Financial Accounts Unit
• 4203 Non-Market Economy Unit

 

National Accounts Departments (NA) have been constructing data on both annual and quarterly GDP in line with ESA 2010 since 2014. The PPP program is fully harmonized with existing supply and use tables. The supply and use tables are under the responsibility of Input-Output Unit. The PPP agenda connected with national accounts was moved from Non-Market Economy Unit and now is under the responsibility of Input-Output Tables Unit.

The National Accounts Department (concretely Input-Output Tables Unit) is responsible for the following parts:

• Expenditure Weights based on expenditure approach to GDP;
• Rents questionnaire;
• Salary questionnaire;
• VAT questionnaire;
• Standard Remuneration Questionnaire;
• Tips questionnaire.

Annual sector accounts and supply and use tables represent key data sources for PPP basic headings of the PPP questionnaire template (Expenditure Weights based on expenditure approach to GDP/table 24). The main system of the work on the PPP program lies in the top-down method when existing aggregates broken down by CZ-COICOP or CZ-CPA, etc. are split into selected detail by additional data sources.

Standard Remuneration Questionnaire, as well as the Salary questionnaire, is done in cooperation with the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs. The CZSO cooperated with the same experts as in previous years. The reason is their specific knowledge and data sources.

Data for the Rent questionnaire are calculated in NA department in cooperation with Price Statistics Department (price indices).

Data for the VAT questionnaire and Tips questionnaire are given also from NA department.

Data for Education survey are provided by experts from Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. They collect the data and calculate the indicators for the international comparison and then they submit the results to the Eurostat, OECD and UN.

1.1.3.        Organizational issues

The PPP exercise cannot be satisfactorily done without close cooperation between Price Statistics Department and National Accounts Department. Both departments belong to the Section of Macroeconomic Statistics. Of course, the work on the PPP exercise is quite demanding on human resources of the Czech Statistical Office.

All employers participating on the PPP project in the CZSO perform this task only as a part time activity. Beside that they have their main tasks according to their organizational units. All participating employers from National Accounts Department and Price Statistics Department have appropriate university diplomas and appropriate seniority level, which may differ among team members.

3.2. Classification system

See concept 3.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.3. Coverage - sector

See concept 3.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

See concept 3.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.5. Statistical unit

See concept 3.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.6. Statistical population

See concept 3.6 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.7. Reference area

The whole country.

3.8. Coverage - Time

See concept 3.8 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

3.9. Base period

Not applicable, because PPPs (Purchasing power parities) are primarily spatial indicators.

See concept 4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

See concept 6.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

See concept 6.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

7.1. Confidentiality - policy

Confidentiality of the individual data is assured by the law about the state statistical service (nb. 89/1995 Col.) which takes effect also on the other countries data. The data are taken only from the online tools and are stored at the protected areas of the internal IT system.

The subcontracted tasks are validated by the national coordinator, so the other countries data are accessible only by the members of the CZSO staff and they are protected by the individual passwords in their computers.

 

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Basic price data provided to the Eurostat and the Group Leader is considered confidential and they are not intended to provide to the third parties.

8.1. Release calendar

See concept 8.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

8.2. Release calendar access

See concept 8.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

8.3. Release policy - user access

See concept 8.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 9 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

10.1. Dissemination format - News release

The CZSO regularly publish results of their national statistics and also international comparison according to their catalogue of products.

10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

Not applicable.

10.3. Dissemination format - online database

The results provided by the Eurostat are not intended directly to be disseminated. These results cannot be provided to the third parties if they are not agreed by the CZSO.

Those interested in the results and other information is referred to the Eurostat publications and its website or can directly contact the CZSO.

10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

See concept 10.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

10.5. Dissemination format - other

Not applicable

10.6. Documentation on methodology

The latest version of the "EUROSTAT-OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities" is available online. 

10.7. Quality management - documentation

See concept 10.7 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

11.1. Quality assurance

All data provided undergo a detailed multilateral validation process, described in detail in the PPP Manual (see 10.6).

11.2. Quality management - assessment

At European level, the PPP Regulation requires Eurostat to assess the PPP processes of each EU Member State at least once every six years and to publish the results of these assessments on the Eurostat website. The outcome of these assessments are released on Eurostat's website.

12.1. Relevance - User Needs

See concept 12.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction

See concept 12.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

12.3. Completeness

All indicators are calculated and published.

13.1. Accuracy - overall

See concept 13.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

13.2. Sampling error

See concept 13.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

13.3. Non-sampling error

See concept 13.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

14.1. Timeliness

See concept 14.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

14.2. Punctuality

See concept 14.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.1. Comparability - geographical

See concept 15.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.2. Comparability - over time

See concept 15.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

See concept 15.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable

See Chapter 16.1

16.1. Persons involved in the PPP exercise

• Presence of a full-time national PPP co-ordinator :
• Persons are involved in the PPP exercise are full-time or part-time;
• Experience and qualifications of the staff working in the PPP area;

17.1. Data revision - policy

See concept 17.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

17.2. Data revision - practice

Not applicable, cf. 17.1.

18.1. Source data

See concept 18.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

See concept 18.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.3. Data collection

See concept 18.3 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.4. Data validation

See concept 18.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.5. Data compilation

See concept 18.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

18.6. Adjustment

See concept 18.6 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

Not applicable

See concept 3.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

24 February 2026

See concept 3.4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 3.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 3.6 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

The whole country.

See concept 5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 13.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 4 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 18.5 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 18.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 9 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 14.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 15.1 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.

See concept 15.2 of the Eurostat metadata file prc_ppp_esms.