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Consumer Price Index
Bureau of Labor Statistics > Consumer Price Index > Methods > Additional Resources

Program Information

  • CPI Overview (HTML)
  • CPI rent and owners' equivalent rent (OER) questions and answers (HTML)
  • CPI item aggregation (HTML)
  • Chronology of changes in the Consumer Price Index (HTML)
  • Recent and upcoming methodology change notices, since 2017 (HTML)
  • Consumer Price Index series title changes, since 2018 (HTML)
  • Discontinued Consumer Price Index and Average Price series, since 2020 (HTML)
  • New published Consumer Price Index and Average Price series, since 2021 (HTML)
  • Rebased Consumer Price Index series, since 2025 (HTML)
  • The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on CPI data (available for March 2020 - January 2022)
  • 2018 Geographic Revision Notice (HTML)
  • 1998 revision item structure (HTML)
  • 1998 revision item concordance (HTML)
  • CPI-PCE code mapping (HTML)
  • Comparison of BLS price and spending measures (HTML)

HandBook of Methods

  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 1: CPI Geographic Sample, 2018 (HTML)
  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 2: Content of CPI Entry Level Items (HTML)
  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 3: Consumer Expenditure Sample Rotation Categories (HTML)
  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 4: Non-Consumer Expenditure Sample Rotation Categories (HTML)
  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 5: Consumer Expenditure UCC to CPI ELI Concordance (HTML)
  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 6: Items for which Average Price Data is Published (HTML)
  • CPI Handbook of Methods Appendix 7: CPI Items by Publication Level (HTML)

Papers

  • Use of Medical Claims Data in the CPI for Physicians’ and Hospital Services, 2024 (HTML)
  • Improvements to the CPI Health Insurance Index, 2023 (HTML)
  • Household Cost Indexes: Prototype Methods and Results, 2023 (HTML)
  • Case Study: The Consumer Price Index Program’s Use of Crowdsourced Gasoline Price Data, 2023 (HTML)
  • A Comparison of PCE and CPI: Methodological Differences in U.S. Inflation Calculation and Their Implications 2017 (HTML)
  • Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI, 2009  (HTML)
  • New Evidence on Outlet Substitution Effects in Consumer Price Index Data, 2008 (HTML)
  • Improving the CPI's Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model Averaging, 2007 (HTML)

 

Last Modified Date: May 12, 2025