1 Introduction, overview, and basic steps for the consumer price index development -- 2 Uses, concepts, scope, and classifications of consumer price indices -- 3 Expenditure weights and their sources -- 4 Sampling -- 5 Price collection and validation -- 6 Temporarily and permanently missing prices and quality change -- 7 Maintaining the sample -- 8 Calculating consumer price indices in practice -- 9 Updating CPI weights and linking new to previous CPI series -- 10 Scanner data -- 11 Selected special cases -- 12 Errors and bias -- 13 Data quality management and reporting -- 14 Publication, dissemination, and user relations -- Bibliography -- Index.