Definition: European comparison programme

Category: Purchasing power parities

The ICP (International comparison project) regional programme for Europe that was carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It was organised by Eurostat, the OECD, Statistics Austria, the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics. Although the ECP formally ceased to exist after 1996, the term is still in use as shorthand for the Eurostat PPP (purchasing power parities) Programme (2012 Methodological manual on purchasing power parities).

The ICP (International comparison project) regional programme for Europe carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It is organised by Eurostat, the OECD, the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics (2005 Methodological manual on purchasing power parities). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-RA-12-023&mode=view Eurostat and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Eurostat - OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities (2005 Edition)", Methods and Nomenclatures, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2006European Union, Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 establishing rules for the provision of basic information on PPPs, Official Journal of the European Union No L 336, 20.12.2007, p. 1 - 24