Archive:Comparing prices across countries

Paul Konijn is Head of the PPP section in the National Accounts, Methodology and Analysis Unit in Eurostat. Photo: Christine Ardillac

Published in Sigma - The Bulletin of European Statistics, 2007/02

Introduction

For many years, Eurostat, together with the OECD, has run the European comparison programme. The aim is to compile purchasing power parities, which are a kind of alternative exchange rates that allow a comparison of, for example, GDP across countries, that is unaffected by differences in price levels between the countries.

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