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SERIES A 
Statistics in Society

Theoretical and practical issues in purchasing power parities illustrated with reference to the 1993 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development data, by J.R. Cuthbert
Journal of the Royal Statistics Society, Series A, Statistics in Society, Volume 163 (2000), Part 3

The data represent six detailed tables from the paper (Tables 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 and 9), presented as Excel spreadsheets. The tables have been derived from the data used in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development 1993-based calculation of purchasing power parities and real expenditures for 24 countries. For full details of the definitions and conventions used in calculating the tables, see the paper.

The abbreviations are as follows: GER, Germany; FRA, France; ITA, Italy; NLD, Netherlands; BEL, Belgium; LUX, Luxemburg; IRE, Ireland; DNK, Denmark; GRC, Greece; SPA, Spain; PRT, Portugal; AUT, Austria; SWI, Switzerland; SWE, Sweden; FIN, Finland; ICE, Iceland; NOR, Norway; TUR, Turkey; AUS, Australia; NZL, New Zealand; JAP, Japan; CAN, Canada.

J. R. Cuthbert
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