Database and Development Indicators

Methods

• Handbook of the International Comparison Programme [PDF: 12,539 kb | 127 pages]
  Studies in Methods, Series F, No.62, Department of Economic and Social Development, Statistical Division, United Nations, New York, 1992
  The ICP Handbook offers technical knowledge to staff working at the national level, especially in developing and newly participating countries, with the aim of promoting uniform understanding of methodological principles. It is available in six languages, including chinese, from the World Bank ICP website.
  
  
• Purchasing Power Parity and Quantity Comparison for the ESCAP region [PDF: 6,832 kb | 64 pages]
  Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations, New York, 1992
  This report compares real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and purchasing power parities (PPP) among the eleven Asia & Pacific (ESCAP) members in 1985.
  
  
• World Comparisons of Real Gross Domestic Product and Purchasing Power, 1985 [PDF: 13,177 kb | 97 pages]
  Phase V of the International Comparison Programme
  United Nations, Statistical Division and EUROSTAT, New York, 1994
  This publication makes available internationally comparable estimates of real gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure components of phase V on the International Comparison Program (ICP) with reference year 1985.

Software

ICP Structured Product Description Software (ICP SPD)
[Zipped Executable file: 188 kb]

ICP ToolPack ver. 1.2

Processing data for the International Comparison Program involves a significant amount of calculations and is very challenging. To assist the national statistical agencies in managing their voluminous data for the ICP, World Bank developed an integrated software package called ICP Tool Pack. The Tool Pack facilitates data validation and analysis.

The present Tool Pack version is 1.2 and consists of the Price Administration Module (PAM), the Price Collection Module (PCM), and the Data Processing Module (DPM). The PAM is where products, locations, surveys and survey operations personnel are defined and relationships mapped. It could be installed in only one computer but accessible to others through LAN. PCM, on the other hand, is where the collected price information is encoded, and therefore, could be installed in many stand-alone computers down to the field offices. The DPM provides for the transfer of data from the countries to the Regional Office and for inter-country validation and analysis.

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