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errata

Index and average price data for electricity in Riverside for May through November 2022 were incorrectly published in the database. The error also includes related aggregate data within Riverside and several related areas. A list of affected series and the corrected indexes and average price values is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/data-series-affected-by-consumer-price-index-data-suppression-for-utilities-and-related-series-in-2022.htm

 

Corrections to be made on 4/28/23.

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23-710-SAN
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

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Consumer Price Index, Riverside Area — March 2023

Area prices were unchanged over the past two months, up 4.6 percent from a year ago

Prices in the Riverside area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were unchanged for the two months ending in March 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that a decrease in natural gas prices helped offset higher prices for shelter and gasoline. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, bi-monthly changes may reflect seasonal influences.)

Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U advanced 4.6 percent. (See chart 1 and table A.) Food prices increased 8.9 percent. Energy prices declined 7.7 percent, largely the result of a decrease in the price of gasoline. The index for all items less food and energy advanced 5.9 percent over the year. (See table 1.)

Food

Food prices increased 0.6 percent for the two months ending in March. (See table 1.) Prices for food at home advanced 0.4 percent, led by higher prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs (1.4 percent). Prices for food away from home increased 1.0 percent for the same period.

Over the year, food prices increased 8.9 percent. Prices for food at home increased 7.8 percent since a year ago.  Price increases across food at home expenditure categories ranged from 6.0 percent for other food at home to 15.4 percent for cereals and bakery products. Prices for food away from home increased 11.0 percent.

Energy

The energy index declined 7.8 percent for the two months ending in March. The decrease was mainly due to lower prices for natural gas service (-60.5 percent). Prices for gasoline advanced 9.6 percent for the same period.

Energy prices declined 7.7 percent over the year, largely due to lower prices for gasoline (-14.8 percent). Prices for natural gas service advanced 4.9 percent during the past year.

All items less food and energy

The index for all items less food and energy increased 0.8 percent in the latest two-month period. Higher prices for shelter (1.5 percent) and new vehicles (0.6 percent) were partially offset by lower prices for household furnishings and operations (-1.2 percent) and education and communication (-1.2 percent).

Over the year, the index for all items less food and energy advanced 5.9 percent. Components contributing to the increase included shelter (8.7 percent) and new vehicles (6.1 percent). Partly offsetting the increases was a price decrease in used cars and trucks (-9.4 percent).

Table A. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA, CPI-U 2-month and 12-month percent changes, all items index, not seasonally adjusted
Month20192020202120222023
2-month12-month2-month12-month2-month12-month2-month12-month2-month12-month

January

0.43.00.53.00.92.21.58.61.37.3

March

0.72.80.02.31.33.62.710.00.04.6

May

1.22.9-0.20.92.05.91.49.4

July

-0.12.60.71.71.36.51.19.2

September

0.63.10.51.70.86.80.08.4

November

0.22.90.41.91.47.90.67.5

The May 2023 Consumer Price Index for the Riverside area is scheduled to be released on June 13, 2023.


Technical Note

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measures 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 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metropolitan area includes Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in California.

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Table 1. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Indexes and percent changes for selected periods

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario (December 2017=100 unless otherwise noted)
Item and Group

IndexesPercent change from-
Historical
data
Jan.
2023
Feb.
2023
Mar.
2023
Mar.
2022
Jan.
2023
Feb.
2023

Expenditure category

All items

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0
127.683-127.7074.60.0-

Food and beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF
130.546-131.3308.40.6-

Food

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF1
131.581-132.3978.90.6-

Food at home

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF11
130.619130.415131.1577.80.40.6

Cereals and bakery products

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF111
147.329-148.99115.41.1-

Meats, poultry, fish, and eggs

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF112
132.066-133.8936.21.4-

Dairy and related products

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEFJ
113.252-112.8727.5-0.3-

Fruits and vegetables

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF113
134.208-132.1616.8-1.5-

Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF114
129.059-129.8396.20.6-

Other food at home

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF115
125.410-125.9876.00.5-

Food away from home

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEFV
132.851-134.17511.01.0-

Alcoholic beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAF116
111.419-111.548-2.30.1-

Housing

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH
133.636-131.8628.0-1.3-

Shelter

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH1
127.507128.567129.4698.71.50.7

Rent of primary residence

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHA
133.075134.418135.77412.12.01.0

Owners' equiv. rent of residences

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHC
126.470127.302127.7907.91.00.4

Owners' equiv. rent of primary residence

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHC01
126.470127.302127.7907.91.00.4

Fuels and utilities

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH2
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Household energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH21
------

Energy services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHF
------

Electricity

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHF01
------

Utility (piped) gas service

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEHF02
396.247201.279156.6994.9-60.5-22.1

Household furnishings and operations

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAH3
125.352-123.9075.9-1.2-

Apparel

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAA
114.114-113.6754.3-0.4-

Transportation

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAT
129.931-133.651-3.32.9-

Private transportation

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAT1
132.230-135.977-3.62.8-

New and used motor vehicles

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETA
118.696-120.1122.71.2-

New vehicles

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETA01
116.572-117.2706.10.6-

Used cars and trucks

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETA02
135.154-135.310-9.40.1-

Motor fuel

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETB
144.532151.545158.276-14.69.54.4

Gasoline (all types)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSETB01
144.153151.213158.053-14.89.64.5

Gasoline, unleaded regular(1)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSS47014
144.495151.692158.650-15.19.84.6

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade(1)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSS47015
144.917151.763158.474-14.39.44.4

Gasoline, unleaded premium(1)

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSS47016
142.125148.628154.982-13.79.04.3

Medical care

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAM
121.020-121.0824.50.1-

Recreation

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAR
109.273-110.0884.70.7-

Education and communication

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAE
111.360-109.9900.7-1.2-

Tuition, other school fees, and child care

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSEEB
125.658-125.6434.40.0-

Other goods and services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAG
121.185-121.2024.50.0-

Commodity and service group

All items

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0
127.683-127.7074.60.0-

Commodities

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAC
124.776-126.1950.71.1-

Commodities less food & beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSACL11
121.681-123.427-3.21.4-

Nondurables less food & beverages

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSANL11
124.947-129.521-6.63.7-

Durables

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAD
117.815-116.9750.7-0.7-

Services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAS
129.842-128.8837.2-0.7-

Special aggregate indexes

All items less medical care

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0L5
128.151-128.1724.60.0-

All items less shelter

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0L2
127.872-126.8672.4-0.8-

Commodities less food

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSACL1
121.347-123.054-3.21.4-

Nondurables

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSAN
127.855-130.4630.82.0-

Nondurables less food

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSANL1
124.190-128.548-6.43.5-

Services less rent of shelter

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSASL2RS
132.962-127.8545.0-3.8-

Services less medical care services

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSASL5
130.380-129.3387.5-0.8-

Energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0E
175.886162.930162.230-7.7-7.8-0.4

All items less energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0LE
123.884-124.8056.40.7-

All items less food and energy

Go to web page with historical data for series CUURS49CSA0L1E
122.657-123.5975.90.8-

Footnotes
(1) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample.

- Data not available
NOTE: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.

 

Last Modified Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023