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The consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) is a continuation of the historical index that was introduced after World War I for use in wage negotiation. [23] As new uses were developed for the CPI, the need for a broader and more representative index became apparent.
Grocery price inflation has come a long way since hitting 13.5% in the summer of 2022, but January saw a notable jump with prices up 1.9% from the same month last year, up from 1.2% in January 2024.
America’s red-hot inflation rate just got hotter. The consumer price index (CPI), which measures a variety of goods and services, rose 8.5% in March from a year earlier. The CPI report for March ...
Consumer prices rose 0.5% from December — the fastest pace since August 2023 — resulting in an annual inflation rate of 3% for the 12 months that ended in January, according to the latest ...
Description: U.S. Consumer Price Index, a measure of inflation, 1913–2022. 100=1982–84 Date: 8 February 2023: Source: Data source at , specifically in the "... index averages" table in this PDF file (US Government – public domain); Original image at File:Consumer Price Index US 1913-2004.png
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 CPI rose 0.8% in February compared to January after increasing by 0.6% during the prior month. A surge in energy prices was one of the key contributors to the latest red-hot CPI print.
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 ...