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Organizations. Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) Status: Active Frequency: Monthly Record number: The Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) is a monthly series that is published every quarter. The FPPI measures the changes in prices that farmers receive for the agriculture commodities they produce and sell.
Data release - February 26, 2014 Description The Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) measures the changes in prices that farmers receive for the agriculture commodities they produce and sell. The price index has separate crop and livestock indexes, a variety of commodity-group indexes such as cereals, oilseeds, specialty crops, cattle and hogs and an overall index - all available monthly and annually for the provinces and for Canada.
Reference period: The time period for which the FPPI equals 100; currently this is the year 2007. Collection period: For most of the commodities included in the FPPI, the collection process occurs the first week following the reference month. Subjects AgricultureAgriculture price indexesPrices and price indexes Sampling. Ited Nations Statistics Division. New York, 1 June 2016 - The chair of the Statistical Commission, Ms. Wasmalia Bivar of Brazil, addressed the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on 1 June during its Coordination and Management Meeting. Ms. Bivar, who provided her briefing by videolink, informed the Council that the Statistical Commission at its last session in March had agreed “as a practical starting point” on a global indicator framework, which had been developed by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs).
She also informed the Council of the recent work of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the plans for a first UN World Data Forum to be held in Capetown, South Africa, in January 2017. The presentation (English, Spanish) was followed by a short Q&A session.
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