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Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Prices in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 1.0 percent for the two months ending in November 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the food index increased 1.0 percent, and the energy index declined 13.4 percent from September to November. The all items less food and energy index decreased 0.2 percent over the past two months. Within the all items less food and energy category, prices were lower over the two-month period for apparel, used cars and trucks, and household furnishings and operations, but higher for shelter and recreation. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)
Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U increased 5.3 percent. (See chart 1 and table A.) The index for all items less food and energy increased 3.7 percent over the year. Food prices rose 13.7 percent. Energy prices rose 8.7 percent, largely the result of an increase in the price of gasoline. (See table 1.)
Food prices rose 1.0 percent for the two months ending in November. Prices for food at home (groceries) fell 0.2 percent, as four of the six major grocery store food group indexes decreased over the two-month period. Categories that fell included dairy and related products (-1.8 percent), fruits and vegetables (-0.9 percent), other food at home (includes sugar, sweets, fats, and oils, for example) (-0.8 percent), and nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials (-0.2 percent). The index for cereals and bakery products was up 3.4 percent and the index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs increased 0.1 percent. Prices for food away from home (restaurant, cafeteria, and vending purchases) increased 2.8 percent for the same period.
Over the year, food prices rose 13.7 percent. Prices for food at home increased 15.1 percent since a year ago. All six major grocery store food group indexes increased over the year. The index for cereals and bakery products was up 18.2 percent and the index for other food at home increased 17.7 percent over the year. Prices for food away from home increased 11.8 percent.
EnergyThe energy index decreased 13.4 percent for the two months ending in November. The decrease was mainly due to lower prices for utility (piped) gas service (-30.5 percent). Prices for electricity fell 13.1 percent and prices for gasoline declined 4.8 percent for the same period.
Energy prices increased 8.7 percent over the year, largely due to higher prices for gasoline (12.2 percent). Prices paid for electricity increased 11.1 percent, while prices for utility (piped) gas service fell 2.1 percent during the past year.
All items less food and energyThe index for all items less food and energy fell 0.2 percent in the latest two-month period. Lower prices for apparel (-10.1 percent), used cars and trucks (-5.3 percent), and household furnishings and operations (-2.4 percent) were partially offset by higher prices for shelter (0.9 percent) and recreation (2.1 percent).
Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy advanced by 3.7 percent. The shelter index contributed to the increase, up 3.0 percent during the past year.
Month | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |||||
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2-month | 12-month | 2-month | 12-month | 2-month | 12-month | 2-month | 12-month | 2-month | 12-month | |
January | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 7.2 | |
March | 0.5 | 1.4 | 2.3 | -0.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 8.2 | |
May | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.3 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 8.7 | |
July | 0.3 | 0.3 | 2.2 | -0.1 | -0.3 | 1.7 | 6.5 | 1.2 | 8.2 | |
September | 0.3 | -0.2 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 5.4 | 0.4 | 7.4 | |
November | -1.2 | 1.3 | -0.2 | 2.8 | -0.4 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 6.9 | -1.0 | 5.3 |
The January 2023 Consumer Price Index for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area is scheduled to be released on February 14, 2023.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes CPIs for two population groups: (1) a CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) which covers approximately 93 percent of the total U.S. population and (2) a CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) which covers approximately 29 percent of the total U.S. population. The CPI-U includes, in addition to wage earners and clerical workers, groups such as professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force.
The CPI is based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, and fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, and the other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Each month, prices are collected in 75 urban areas across the country from about 6,000 housing units and approximately 22,000 retail establishments—department stores, supermarkets, hospitals, filling stations, and other types of stores and service establishments. All taxes directly associated with the purchase and use of items are included in the index.
The index measures price changes from a designated reference date; for most of the CPI-U the reference base is 1982-84 equals 100. An increase of 7 percent from the reference base, for example, is shown as 107.000. Alternatively, that relationship can also be expressed as the price of a base period market basket of goods and services rising from $100 to $107. For further details see the CPI home page on the Internet at www.bls.gov/cpi and the CPI section of the BLS Handbook of Methods available on the internet at www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/.
In calculating the index, price changes for the various items in each location are averaged together with weights that represent their importance in the spending of the appropriate population group. Local data are then combined to obtain a U.S. city average. Because the sample size of a local area is smaller, the local area index is subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error than the national index. In addition, local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. As a result, local area indexes show greater volatility than the national index, although their long-term trends are quite similar. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the average change in prices for each area since the base period.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, Core Based Statistical Area covered in this release is comprised of Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, LeSueur, Mille Lacs, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Washington, and Wright Counties in Minnesota; and Pierce and St. Croix Counties in Wisconsin.
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Item and Group | Indexes | Percent change from- | ||||
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Sep. 2022 | Oct. 2022 | Nov. 2022 | Nov. 2021 | Sep. 2022 | Oct. 2022 | |
Expenditure category | ||||||
All items | 290.325 | - | 287.396 | 5.3 | -1.0 | - |
All items (1967=100) | 912.356 | - | 903.149 | - | - | - |
Food and beverages | 347.394 | - | 350.534 | 12.7 | 0.9 | - |
Food | 336.866 | - | 340.101 | 13.7 | 1.0 | - |
Food at home | 307.310 | 304.726 | 306.756 | 15.1 | -0.2 | 0.7 |
Cereals and bakery products | 323.943 | - | 334.864 | 18.2 | 3.4 | - |
Meats, poultry, fish and eggs | 337.012 | - | 337.288 | 10.5 | 0.1 | - |
Dairy and related products | 337.530 | - | 331.493 | 14.4 | -1.8 | - |
Fruits and vegetables | 416.927 | - | 413.019 | 15.3 | -0.9 | - |
Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials(1) | 186.542 | - | 186.232 | 14.1 | -0.2 | - |
Other food at home | 249.329 | - | 247.454 | 17.7 | -0.8 | - |
Food away from home | 376.058 | - | 386.517 | 11.8 | 2.8 | - |
Alcoholic beverages | 423.725 | - | 424.950 | 2.6 | 0.3 | - |
Housing | 274.227 | - | 269.722 | 3.8 | -1.6 | - |
Shelter | 311.417 | 313.192 | 314.289 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 |
Rent of primary residence(2) | 321.341 | 322.622 | 324.725 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
331.428 | 333.153 | 333.232 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
331.428 | 333.153 | 333.232 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
Fuels and utilities | 314.210 | - | 259.677 | 5.5 | -17.4 | - |
Household energy | 299.418 | 255.351 | 234.736 | 4.5 | -21.6 | -8.1 |
Energy services(2) | 303.959 | 257.758 | 236.498 | 4.7 | -22.2 | -8.2 |
Electricity(2) | 331.838 | 294.289 | 288.380 | 11.1 | -13.1 | -2.0 |
Utility (piped) gas service(2) | 283.964 | 230.712 | 197.309 | -2.1 | -30.5 | -14.5 |
Household furnishings and operations | 148.504 | - | 144.968 | 6.9 | -2.4 | - |
Apparel | 149.822 | - | 134.689 | -6.0 | -10.1 | - |
Transportation | 254.111 | - | 249.469 | 7.3 | -1.8 | - |
Private transportation | 238.584 | - | 234.156 | 5.4 | -1.9 | - |
New and used motor vehicles(4) | 116.831 | - | 114.628 | 0.7 | -1.9 | - |
New vehicles(1) | 186.846 | - | 188.938 | 5.1 | 1.1 | - |
Used cars and trucks(1) | 399.886 | - | 378.536 | -4.5 | -5.3 | - |
Motor fuel | 305.573 | 308.632 | 291.266 | 12.6 | -4.7 | -5.6 |
Gasoline (all types) | 305.957 | 308.904 | 291.254 | 12.2 | -4.8 | -5.7 |
Gasoline, unleaded regular(5) | 306.944 | 310.035 | 292.178 | 12.1 | -4.8 | -5.8 |
304.860 | 306.030 | 289.859 | 12.7 | -4.9 | -5.3 | |
Gasoline, unleaded premium(5) | 372.908 | 374.837 | 355.289 | 12.9 | -4.7 | -5.2 |
Medical care | 635.806 | - | 630.371 | 4.5 | -0.9 | - |
Recreation(4) | 133.666 | - | 136.436 | 2.2 | 2.1 | - |
Education and communication(4) | 140.908 | - | 142.685 | 1.8 | 1.3 | - |
Tuition, other school fees, and childcare(1) | 1,205.653 | - | 1,205.605 | 2.3 | 0.0 | - |
Other goods and services | 454.011 | - | 456.327 | 9.0 | 0.5 | - |
Commodity and service group | ||||||
All items | 290.325 | - | 287.396 | 5.3 | -1.0 | - |
Commodities | 225.310 | - | 222.253 | 6.9 | -1.4 | - |
Commodities less food and beverages | 172.413 | - | 167.740 | 3.6 | -2.7 | - |
Nondurables less food and beverages | 233.274 | - | 224.124 | 5.9 | -3.9 | - |
Durables | 122.476 | - | 120.646 | 1.6 | -1.5 | - |
Services | 347.384 | - | 344.675 | 4.3 | -0.8 | - |
Special aggregate indexes | ||||||
All items less medical care | 274.693 | - | 271.878 | 5.4 | -1.0 | - |
All items less shelter | 282.143 | - | 276.882 | 6.4 | -1.9 | - |
Commodities less food | 181.700 | - | 177.035 | 3.6 | -2.6 | - |
Nondurables | 286.846 | - | 283.132 | 9.6 | -1.3 | - |
Nondurables less food | 246.740 | - | 238.006 | 5.6 | -3.5 | - |
Services less rent of shelter(3) | 404.015 | - | 393.855 | 5.7 | -2.5 | - |
Services less medical care services | 320.594 | - | 318.281 | 4.3 | -0.7 | - |
Energy | 308.467 | 286.459 | 267.010 | 8.7 | -13.4 | -6.8 |
All items less energy | 294.899 | - | 294.847 | 5.1 | 0.0 | - |
All items less food and energy | 288.802 | - | 288.264 | 3.7 | -0.2 | - |
Footnotes | ||||||
- Data not available. |
Last Modified Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022