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The Chained Consumer Price Index C-CPI-U, a chained index, has been introduced. The C-CPI-U tries to mitigate the substitution bias that is encountered in CPI-W and CPI-U by employing a Tornqvist formula and utilizing expenditure data in adjacent time periods in order to reflect the effect of any substitution that consumers make across item ...
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 ...
Australia's economy is strongly intertwined with the countries of East and Southeast Asia, also known as ASEAN Plus Three (APT), accounting for about 64% of exports in 2016. [46] China in particular is Australia's main export and import partner by a wide margin. [47] Australia is a member of the APEC, G20, OECD and WTO.
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The Climate Change Act 2022 passed the parliament on 8 September 2022, having been approved by the House by 86 votes to 50 and the Senate by 37 votes to 30. The legislation codifies a 43 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030 (on 2005 levels), requires the Climate Change Authority to provide advice on Australia's progress against those targets, mandates that the Minister for Climate ...
With 2023 fast approaching, Social Security beneficiaries will soon get a definite answer on how much their monthly payments will go up next year based on the current quarter's inflation rate. For...
The average weekly price for a rental in Australia is $570 per week. Units are typically cheaper, at a national median of $540 vis-a-vis houses at $582. [3] Rental prices grew nationally by 10.1% between 2022 and 2023; substantially higher than the annualised CPI rate of 7% for the period.
Climate-change also exacerbated home insurance premiums in the U.S., which rose 33% between 2020 and 2023. [172] As of April 2024, the annual inflation rate in the United States was 3.5% for the twelve months ending in March, compared to 7% in 2021 and 6.5% in 2022. [173] [174] [175]