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प्रश्न
Explain Paasche’s price index number
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उत्तर
Paasches price index number
`"P"_01^"L" = (sum"p"_1"q"_1)/(sum"p"_0"q"_1) xx 100`
Where P1 = current year price
q1 = Current year quantity
p0 = Base year price
q0 = Base year quantity
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Statements that are incorrect in relation to index numbers:
- An index number is a geographical tool.
- Index numbers measure changes in air pressure.
- Index numbers measure relative changes in an economic variable.
- Index numbers are specialized averages.
Explain the features of index numbers.
Device that measures changes in an economic variable or a group of variables over a period of time –
Index number which is computed from a single variable called is a ______.
Assertion (A): Index numbers are statistical devices.
Reasoning (R): Index numbers measure only changes in the price level over a period of time.
Define Time Reversal Test
Calculate price index number for 2005 by (a) Laspeyre’s (b) Paasche’s method
| Commodity | 1995 | 2005 | ||
| Price | Quantity | Price | Quantity | |
| A | 5 | 60 | 15 | 70 |
| B | 4 | 20 | 8 | 35 |
| C | 3 | 15 | 6 | 20 |
Choose the correct alternative:
Cost of living at two different cities can be compared with the help of
Choose the correct alternative:
While computing a weighted index, the current period quantities are used in the:
An Enquiry was made into the budgets of the middle class families in a city gave the following information.
| Expenditure | Food | Rent | Clothing | Fuel | Rice |
| Price(2010) | 150 | 50 | 100 | 20 | 60 |
| Price(2011) | 174 | 60 | 125 | 25 | 90 |
| Weights | 35 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 20 |
What changes in the cost of living have taken place in the middle class families of a city?
