PINR Publications

Conference Papers

    Bradley, Ralph

  • "An Overview of the Research on Potential Uses of Scanner Data." (with: Cook, B., Leaver, S., and Moulton, B.) in Proceedings of the Third meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indexes, 1997, 169-182.(PDF)
  • "Potential Benefits from the Use of Scanner Data." American Statistical Association Proceedings , 1996.(PDF)

    Garner, Thesia

  • "The Consumer Expenditure Survey: Information Exchange and Overview," in Karen P. Schnittgrund, ed., American Council on Consumer Interests 31st Annual Conference, March 1985, Fort Worth, Texas, the Proceedings. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1985, pp. 288-289.
  • "Weighting the Consumer Expenditure Survey Data: The GLS Study," in Karen P. Schnittgrund, ed., American Council on Consumer Interests 32th Annual Conference, April 9-12 1986, St. Louis, Missouri, The Proceedings. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1986, pp. 179-184.
  • "Accounting for Owner Occupied Housing in Poverty: Focus on Thresholds." American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Government Statistics and Section on Social Statistics, 1999, Baltimore, Maryland. American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, 1999, pp. 33-35.
  • "The Consumer Expenditure Survey: Methodological Issues for Today and Tomorrow." Annual Agricultural Outlook Conference Proceedings '88. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1988
  • "Household Income Report Completeness: An Analysis of U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data." American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Economic and Business Statistics 1991, Atlanta, GA., American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, 1992.
  • "Reporting of Household Income: Complete Versus Incomplete Response." Bureau of the Census Third Annual Research Conference, March 29-April 1, 1987 Proceedings. Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C., 1987.
  • "Data Comparability Among Federal Household Surveys," in Robert N. Mayer, ed., Enhancing Consumer Choice. Columbia, Missouri: American Council on Consumer Interests, 1991, pp. 525-539
  • "Household Surveys of Economic Status in Eastern Europe: An Evaluation," in Susan Powers, ed., Proceedings from the Conference on Economic Statistics for Economies in Transition: Eastern Europe in the 1990's, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Eurostat, 1994, pp. 309-348
  • "Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data, " in American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Government and Social Statistics, 1997, Anaheim, California. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1997, pp. 28-37.(PDF)
  • "Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997." Current Population Reports, Consumer Income, P60-205. U.S. Census Bureau. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 1999.(PDF 2.0MB)

    Greenlees, John

  • "Improving the Preliminary Values of the Chained CPI-U," Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, Canada, August 3, 2010. Forthcoming, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2011
  • "Apparel Indexes Using Scanner Data: Initial Results," (with Robert McClelland), room document, Joint ECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices in Geneva, Switzerland, May 10-12, 2010.
  • "Misconceptions about Consumer Price Indexes: the U.S. Experience," (with Robert B. McClelland), presented at the Eleventh Meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indices, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 27, 2009.
  • "Price Differentials Across Outlets in Consumer Price Index Data, 2002-2007," (with Robert McClelland.) presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC, November 21, 2008(PDF)
  • "Introducing the Chained Consumer Price Index," (with Robert Cage and Patrick Jackman), in International Working Group on Price Indices (Ottawa Group): Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting (Thierry Lacroix, ed.). Paris: INSEE, 2003, pp. 213-246. (PDF)
  • "The U.S. CPI and the Cost-of-Living Objective," presented at the Joint ECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices in Geneva, Switzerland , November 2, 2001
  • "Telecommunications Indexes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index," (with Dennis Fixler and Walter F. Lane), in International Working Group on Price Indices: Papers and Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting (Keith Woolford, ed.). Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001, pp. 529-553. (PDF)
  • " The Use of Hedonic Regressions to Handle Quality Change: The Experience in the U.S. CPI," (with Dennis Fixler, Charles Fortuna, and Walter Lane) in Proceedings of the Ottawa Group Fifth Meeting. Reykjavik: Statistics Iceland, 2000.(PDF)
  • "Expenditure Weight Updates and Measured Inflation," in Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indices (B. M. Balk , ed.). Statistics Netherlands, 1998, pp. 57-64.(PDF)
  • "Comment on Elizabeth Stasny and Steven Fienberg: ‘Some Stochastic Models for Estimating Gross Flows in the Presence of Nonrandom Nonresponse’" in Proceedings of the Conference on Gross Flows in Labor Force Statistics. U.S. Bureau of the Census and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1985, pp. 40-42.
  • "The Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing: 1967-84,"(with Robert Gillingham), presented at the Fifth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1985.
  • "Imputing Missing Income Values When Response Behavior is Non-ignorable," (with William S. Reece and Kimberly D. Zieschang), presented at an Invited Session on Nonrandomly Missing Values, American Statistical Association Survey Research Methods Section, August 16, 1982.

    Jain, Raj

  • "Automatic Outlier Detection In Seasonal Adjustment Methods." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1997.
  • "Trading Day and Easter Holiday In Seasonal Adjustment Methods." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1996.(PDF)
  • "Comparative Performance of State Space Model-Based and ARIMA Model-Based Methods of Seasonal Adjustment." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1995.(PDF)
  • "The Seasonal Adjustment of the Consumer Price Indexes of Women's Apparel: An application of State Space Model-Based Approach to Intervention Analysis." Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1993 (PDF)

    Verbrugge, Randal

  • "Estimation of Capital and Technology with a Dynamic Economic Model," American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (2000), 173-178.
  • "Aggregation and Model-Based Methods in Seasonal Adjustment of Labor Force Series," American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (1999), 156-161.

    Zadrozny, Peter

  • " Real-Time Quarterly Signal-Plus-Noise Model for Estimating 'True' GDP," (with Chen, Baoline. ) American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section 2001.
  • "Estimation of Capital and Technology with a Dynamic Economic Model," (with Baoline Chen), American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (2000), 173-178.
  • "Aggregation and Model-Based Methods in Seasonal Adjustment of Labor Force Series," (with Stuart Scott) American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section (1999), 156-161.(PDF)

Other Authors

    Johnson, David

  • "Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990 to 1997". Current Population Reports, Consumer Income, P60-205. U.S. Census Bureau. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 1999.(PDF)
  • "Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data, " (with Shipp, Stephanie, and Garner, Thesia I.) in American Statistical Association (ASA) Proceedings of the Section on Government and Social Statistics, 1997, Anaheim, California. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1997, pp. 28-37.(PDF)