The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a price index of a basket of goods and services paid by urban consumers. It is computed every month and includes items typically purchased by households, such as food, fuel, apparel, and medical care. Housing costs make up the largest share of the CPI. The price index can be found in the first line graph shown below.
Percent changes in the price index measure the inflation rate between any two time periods, with the most common metric being the percentage change from one year ago. This information can be found in the second graph.
Indexes are available for two population groups. The CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) covers over 90 percent of the total population and includes expenditures by urban wage earners and clerical workers, professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, retirees and others not in the labor force. The CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) covers approximately 30 percent of the population and includes only expenditures by those in hourly wage earning or clerical jobs.
For more information on the CPI, please visit https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
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