Week 4 Index numbers: construction and uses of index numbers
- Concept of Index number
- Difference between wholesale and retail price index number
- Uses of Index Number
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Course Material
- Week 1 Sampling: Need of sampling, Sample versus population, Random and nonrandom sampling, concepts of statistic and population parameter.
- Week 2 Sampling techniques: Simple Random, Stratified and Systematic random sampling
- Week 3: Sampling and Non-Sampling Errors.
- Week 4 Index numbers: construction and uses of index numbers
- Week 5:Un-weighted index numbers (simple aggregative index, Average of relative price index numbers).
- Week 6: Weighted index numbers (Laspayers, Paaches and Fishers ideal index numbers).
- week 7: Consumer price index (CPI) and Sensitive Price Indicators.
- Week 8 Time Series Analysis: Components of time series and their isolation.
- Week 9: Vital Statistics
- Week 10: Uses of vital statistics, short comings of vital statistics
- Week 11: Rates and ratios (Sex ratio, child women ratio, birth and death ratio, population growth rate
- Week 12: Classification of death rates or mortality rates, crude death rate
- Week 13: Specific death rate, infant mortality rate, case fatality rate, fertility rates
- Week 14: Crude birth rate, specific birth rate, standardized death rate
- Week 15: Reproduction rates, gross reproduction rate, net reproduction rate
- Week 16: Morbidity or sickness rates, marriage rates, divorce rates etc. general; fertility rate, total fertility rate
- Chapters 16
- Department Statistics
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Mr. Waseem Athar Haqqani
