Global Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures - Afristat

Appendix I 199msame components across countries and to determinethe causes of data anomalies. This module is alsowell integrated with the DVM so that after the datavalidation is done, the data can be processed furtherwith the other expenditure categories.Expenditure weights diagnostic module (WDM).GDP expenditure weights are essential to the finalindex computations. The WDM gives the regionsa tool to compare the GDP expenditures across allcountries at the basic-heading or higher levels andto identify problem areas by computing statisticaldeviations across countries. The deviations work onthe shares of expenditures at each level as a percentageof the total GDP.