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DCA provides the public with live telephone assistance in more than 170 languages for consumer-related questions and concerns. The department publishes a number of publications on consumer-related issues, the most popular being the California Tenants Guide. Publications are free to the public and are made available on the department's website.
The Consumer Price Index was initiated during World War I, when rapid increases in prices, particularly in shipbuilding centers, made an index essential for calculating cost-of-living adjustments in wages. To provide appropriate weighting patterns for the index, it reflected the relative importance of goods and services purchased in 92 ...
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) measures the average change in prices paid by consumers for a selection of goods and services. Beginning in January 2023, the CPI will update weights annually ...
With the latest data in the Consumer Price Index, released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday, Dec. 13, groceries went up by 0.5% as of November. While that’s a stark downturn ...
The CPI-U is the most commonly cited index when referring to changes in consumer prices. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), covers approximately 29 ...
Alternatively, rent raise limits may be directly keyed to changes in the cost of living, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Since 1980 in California the CPI has generally been lower than 5%. [82] Examples of rent control ordinances using CPI as an index: Oakland, Mountain View, Richmond. [83]
A deeper dive shows that prices for some grocery items have hit record highs in recent months. Average retail ground beef prices stood at $4.94 a pound in August, according to a recent blog on the ...