Consumer Price Index
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Program Information
- The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on CPI data
- Chronology of changes in the Consumer Price Index (HTML)
- CPI Overview (HTML)
- 2018 Geographic Revision Notice (HTML)
- CPI-PCE code mapping (PDF)
- CPI Requirements of CE (PDF)
- Comparison of BLS price and spending measures (HTML)
- 1998 revision item structure (HTML)
- 1998 revision item concordance (HTML)
- Consumer Price Index series title changes, since 2018 (HTML)
- Discontinued Consumer Price Index series, since 2020 (HTML)
- New published Consumer Price Index series, since 2021 (HTML)
- Recent and upcoming methodology change notices, since 2017 (HTML)
- CPI item aggregation (HTML)
Papers
- Defining an Outlet: What Characteristics are Truly Price Determining? (PDF)
- Sampling and Weighting of Commodity and Service Units for the Elementary Level of Computation of the U.S. Consumer Price Index (PDF)
- Evaluating a Calibration Weighting Scheme for Elementary Indexes for Commodities and Services in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (PDF)
- Estimating Dynamic Price Indexes (PDF)
- A Note on the Effects of Extreme Price Values on Price Indexes (PDF)
- Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI (HTML)
- New Evidence on Outlet Substitution Effects in Consumer Price Index Data (HTML)
- Improving the CPI's Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model Averaging (HTML)
- Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI (PDF)
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)
Last Modified Date: March 10, 2023