Purchasing power parities and real expenditures : 2002 benchmark year = Parités de pouvoir d'achat et dépenses réelles : année de référence 2002

Preliminaries......Page 1 CONTENTS......Page 5 INTRODUCTION......Page 9 1 BACKGROUND TO THE COMPARISON......Page 11 2 DATA REQUIREMENTS AND ORGANISATION OF THE COMPARISON......Page 17 3 DATA COLLECTION BY MAIN EXPENDITURE CATEGORY......Page 22 4 CALCULATION AND AGGREGATION OF PPPS......Page 30 1 SUMMARY RESULTS FOR 2002 THE SPATIAL DIMENSION......Page 36 2 SUMMARY RESULTS THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION......Page 42 3 DETAILED RESULTS FOR 2002 PRESENTATION......Page 47 1 RESULTS IN US DOLLARS AND WITH OECD 30 AS REFERENCE......Page 98 2 RESULTS IN EUROS AND WITH EU 25 AS REFERENCE......Page 148 ANNEX SELECTED GK RESULTS......Page 195 TABLES SELECTED 2002 GK RESULTS......Page 201 The purchasing power parities and real expenditures contained in this joint Eurostat-OECD publication cover 42 countries including the 30 OECD member countries, the 25 EU countries, Israel and the Russian Federation. They are based on price and expenditure data for 2002 and have been calculated using the EKS aggregation method