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However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.
In June of this year, the United States’ inflation rate rose 9.1% over last year, not seasonally adjusted, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was the highest level of ...
The energy index rose 0.6% from March to April on a seasonally adjusted basis, led by a 3% rise in gas prices. Fuel oil prices fell 4.5% from the prior month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Seasonal adjustment or deseasonalization is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series.It is usually done when wanting to analyse the trend, and cyclical deviations from trend, of a time series independently of the seasonal components.
CPI-U starting from 1913; Source: U.S. Department Of Labor Annual inflation (and deflation), 1914–2007. In the US, CPI figures are prepared monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. The CPI-U includes expenditures by all urban consumers.
Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of age and older (R-CPI-E): This index re-weights prices from the CPI-U data to track spending for households with at least one consumer age 62 or older.
A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) revealed headline inflation rose 0.1% over last month and 4% over the prior year in May, a slowdown from April's 0.4% month-over-month increase and 4.9% annual gain.