Indexer Module

The common indexer module is integrated with the data entry module. As opposed to the data entry module which is specific to each country and type of index (CPI, PPI, etc), the indexer handles item and regional hierarchies in a standard way. Each machine on the local area network which has the data entry program will have the common indexer module as well. The indexer module has the following features:

• Compute Standard Laspeyres, Chained Laspeyres and Paasche indices
• Compute hierarchical aggregate indices in a flexible way by importing the structure from independant weight files
• Archive and retrieve indices
• Export index to .DBF format
• Up to 8 levels of aggregation with ITEM level being the lowest one
• Up to 8 weight columns per weight structure.