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The United States Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U), also known as chain-weighted CPI or chain-linked CPI is a time series measure of price levels of consumer goods and services created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as an alternative to the US Consumer Price Index. It is based on the idea that when prices of different goods change at ...
The annual percent change in the US Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers is one of the most common metrics for price inflation in the United States. The United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a family of various consumer price indices published monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The most commonly used ...
According to a BLS news release on September 9, 2020, average annual expenditures for all consumer units in 2019 were $63,036, a 3.0-percent increase from 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. During the same period, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) rose 1.8 percent and average income before taxes increased 5.4 percent.
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics out Wednesday showed that a key inflation metric eased for the first time since July. ... The CPI increased 2.9% over the prior year in December, ...
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.
The Social Security COLA calculation uses data from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at a specific point in ...
The Boskin Report, "Final Report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index" Gordon, Robert J. (June 2000). "The Boskin Commission Report and its Aftermath". NBER Working Paper No. 7759. doi: 10.3386/w7759. "Commercial Knowledge On Innovation Economics, A Report". As quality change is a required component of innovation ...
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 ...