This introductory course is the first of a curriculum about “Alternative Data Sources for compiling Consumer Price Indices”.
It aims to raise awareness of what these data sources are and to showcase how they can be applied at a National Statistical Organisation.
The main characteristics of Alternative Data Sources, with their advantages but also challenges for incorporating their use at the National Statistical Institutes, are described focussing the attention on scanner data, web-scraped data, data obtained through Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, and administrative data.
