The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. Indexes are available for the U.S. and various geographic areas. Average price data for select utility, automotive fuel, and food items are also available. Prices for the goods and services used to calculate the CPI are collected in 75 urban areas throughout the country and from about 23,000 retail and service establishments. Data on rents are collected from about 43,000 landlords or tenants. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://www.bls.gov/cpi

In 2023, the U.S. Consumer Price Index was 309.42, and is projected to increase to 352.27 by 2029. The base period was 1982-84. The monthly CPI for all urban consumers in the U.S. can be accessed here. After a time of high inflation, the U.S. inflation rateis projected fall to two percent by 2027. United States Consumer Price Index ForecastIt is projected that the CPI will continue to rise year over year, reaching 325.6 in 2027. The Consumer Price Index of all urban consumers in previous years was lower, and has risen every year since 1992, except in 2009, when the CPI went from 215.30 in 2008 to 214.54 in 2009. The monthly unadjusted Consumer Price Index was 296.17 for the month of August in 2022. The U.S. CPI measures changes in the price of consumer goods and services purchased by households and is thought to reflect inflation in the U.S. as well as the health of the economy. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the CPI and defines it as, "a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services." The BLS records the price of thousands of goods and services month by month. They consider goods and services within eight main categories: food and beverage, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education, and other goods and services. They aggregate the data collected in order to compare how much it would cost a consumer to buy the same market basket of goods and services within one month or one year compared with the previous month or year. Given that the CPI is used to calculate U.S. inflation, the CPI influences the annual adjustments of many financial institutions in the United States, both private and public. Wages, social security payments, and pensions are all affected by the CPI.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures over time the prices of goods and services in major expenditure categories typically purchased by urban consumers. The expenditure categories include food, housing, apparel, transportation, and medical care. Essentially, the Index measures consumer purchasing power by comparing the cost of a fixed set of goods and services (called a market basket) in a specific month relative to the cost of the same market basket in an earlier reference period, designated as the base period. The CPI is calculated for two population groups: urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) and all urban consumers (CPI-U). The CPI-W population includes those urban families with clerical workers, sales workers, craft workers, operatives, service workers, or laborers in the family unit and is representative of the prices paid by about 40 percent of the United States population. The CPI-U population consists of all urban households (including professional and salaried workers, part-time workers, the self-employed, the unemployed, and retired persons) and is representative of the prices paid by about 80 percent of the United States population. Both populations specifically exclude persons in the military, in institutions, and all persons living outside of urban areas (such as farm families). National indexes for both populations are available for about 350 consumer items and groups of items. In addition, over 100 of the indexes have been adjusted for seasonality. The indexes are monthly with some beginning in 1913. Area indexes are available for 27 urban places. For each area, indexes are presented for about 65 items and groups. The area indexes are produced monthly for 5 areas, bimonthly for 10 areas, and semiannually for 12 urban areas. Regional indexes are available for four regions with about 95 items and groups per region. Beginning with January 1987, regional indexes are monthly, with some beginning as early as 1966. City-size indexes are available for four size classes with about 95 items and groups per class. Beginning with January 1987, these indexes are monthly and most begin in 1977. Regional and city-size indexes are available cross-classified by region and city-size class. For each of the 13 cross-classifications, about 60 items and groups are available. Beginning with January 1987, these indexes are monthly and most begin in 1977. Each index record includes a series identification code that specifies the sample (either all urban consumers or urban wage earners and clerical workers), seasonality (either seasonally adjusted or unadjusted), periodicity (either semiannual or regular), geographic area, index base period, and item number of the index. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 7/13/10)

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR at https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08166.v3. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future and includes additional years of data.

We explain how measures of consumer prices are computed and what the differences are between the consumer price index (CPI) and the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index. We also explain various measures used to gauge underlying inflation, or the long-term trend in prices, such as median and trimmed-mean inflation rates and core inflation.

This data package includes the underlying data to replicate the charts, tables, and calculations presented in Modernizing price measurement and evaluating recent critiques of the consumer price index, PIIE Working Paper 25-3.

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Sichel, Daniel E., and Christopher Mackie. 2025. Modernizing price measurement and evaluating recent critiques of the consumer price index. PIIE Working Paper 25-3. Washington: Peterson Institute for International Economics.

This dataset gives information on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food is a component of the all-items CPI. The CPI measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative market basket of consumer goods and services. While the all-items CPI measures the price changes for all consumer goods and services, including food, the CPI for food measures the changes in the retail prices of food items only.

This table contains 11 series, with data from 1949 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). Data are presented for the current month and previous four months. Users can select other time periods that are of interest to them.

Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index: Services Less Housing National Definition for Austria (CPSELR02ATM661N) from Jan 1966 to May 2018 about Austria, services, CPI, housing, price index, indexes, and price.

The annual average consumer price index in Peru is approximately 115.55 points in 2025.Continuous rise between 1988 and 2025Between 1988 and 2025 a total increase by approximately 115.55 points can be observed. This increase furthermore happened continuously.Continuous rise between 2025 and 2030In 2030 the index will be close to 127.55 points, according to forecasts. Compared to 2025 that is an overall increase by approximately 12 points. This growth reflects a steady upward trend.As defined by the International Monetary Fund, this indicator measures inflation on the basis of the average consumer price index. This index measure expresses a country's average level of prices based on a typical basket of consumer goods and services during a certain year. Typically a reference year exists for which a value of 100 had been assigned.

The Consumer Price Index (IPC) offers a statistical measurement of the conjunctural evolution of the set of prices of the goods and services consumed by families and that are acquired at normal prices, in certain functions of consumption. The source of information is the monthly state-wide statistics produced by the INE. It offers both a general index and a price index by group of products or services, either for the State as a whole or for the Basque Country; it disseminates the annual averages and also the variations or increases between reference periods.

Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy in U.S. City Average (CPILFESL) from Jan 1957 to Apr 2025 about core, headline figure, all items, urban, consumer, CPI, inflation, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

Analysis of ‘🚊 Consumer Price Index’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/yamqwe/consumer-price-indexe on 13 February 2022.

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9The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items (CPIAUCSL) is a measure of the average monthly change in the price for goods and services paid by urban consumers between any two time periods.(1) It can also represent the buying habits of urban consumers. This particular index includes roughly 88 percent of the total population, accounting for wage earners, clerical workers, technical workers, self-employed, short-term workers, unemployed, retirees, and those not in the labor force.(1)

The CPIs are based on prices for food, clothing, shelter, and fuels; transportation fares; service fees (e.g., water and sewer service); and sales taxes. Prices are collected monthly from about 4,000 housing units and approximately 26,000 retail establishments across 87 urban areas.(1) To calculate the index, price changes are averaged with weights representing their importance in the spending of the particular group. The index measures price changes (as a percent change) from a predetermined reference date.(1) In addition to the original unadjusted index distributed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics also releases a seasonally adjusted index. The unadjusted series reflects all factors that may influence a change in prices. However, it can be very useful to look at the seasonally adjusted CPI, which removes the effects of seasonal changes, such as weather, school year, production cycles, and holidays.(1)

The CPI can be used to recognize periods of inflation and deflation. Significant increases in the CPI within a short time frame might indicate a period of inflation, and significant decreases in CPI within a short time frame might indicate a period of deflation. However, because the CPI includes volatile food and oil prices, it might not be a reliable measure of inflationary and deflationary periods. For a more accurate detection, the core CPI (Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food & Energy [CPILFESL]) is often used. When using the CPI, please note that it is not applicable to all consumers and should not be used to determine relative living costs.(1) Additionally, the CPI is a statistical measure vulnerable to sampling error since it is based on a sample of prices and not the complete average.(1)

Attribution: US. Bureau of Labor Statistics from The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

For more information on the consumer price indexes, see:

• (1) Bureau of Economic Analysis. “CPI Detailed Report.” 2013
• (2) Handbook of Methods
• (3) Understanding the CPI: Frequently Asked Questions

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This report analyses trends in the consumer price index (CPI). The CPI measures the changing price of the goods and services New Zealand households buy. It is the standard measure of the rate of inflation in New Zealand. The index has a base of 1,000.0, with 2021-22 designated as the base year. The data for this report is sourced from Statistics New Zealand (Tatauranga Aotearoa).

Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Medical Care Services in U.S. City Average (CUUR0000SAM2) from Mar 1935 to Apr 2025 about medical, urban, consumer, services, CPI, inflation, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

The graph shows the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in China as of April 2025, by sector and area. That month, the CPI for transportation and communication in urban areas resided at ** index points. Measuring inflation The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an economic indicator that measures changes in the price level of a representative basket of consumer goods and services. It is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the market basket and averaging them. Goods and services are weighted according to their significance. The CPI can be used to assess the price changes related to the cost of living. It is also useful for identifying periods of inflation and deflation. A significant rise in CPI during a short period of time denotes inflation and a significant drop during a short period of time suggests deflation. Development of inflation in China Annual projections of China’s inflation rate forecast by the IMF estimate a relatively low increase in prices in the coming years. The implications of low inflation are two-fold for a national economy. On the one hand, price levels remain largely stable which may lead to equal or increased spending levels by domestic consumers. On the other hand, low inflation signifies an expansion slowdown of the economy, as is reflected by China’s gross domestic product growth. In recent years, inflation rates in rural areas have on average been slightly higher than in the cities. This reflects a shift of economic growth from the largest cities and coastal regions to the inner provinces and the countryside. Higher price levels in rural areas in turn relate to higher inflation rates of food products.

The consumer price index (CPI) measures change in the average price of consumer goods and services – specifically, the ONS defines it as "a measure of consumer price inflation - the rate at which the prices of goods and services bought by households rise or fall - produced to international standards and in line with European regulations. The CPI is the inflation measure used in the government's target for inflation". The CPI is weighted based on the value of each good and service purchased by consumers.

description: The Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, was introduced with the release of July data in August 2002. Designated the C-CPI-U, the index supplements the existing Consumer Price Indexes already produced by the BLS: the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The C-CPI-U employs a Tornqvist formula and utilizes expenditure data in adjacent time periods in order to reflect the effect of any substitution that consumers make across item categories in response to changes in relative prices. The new measure is designed to be a closer approximation to a "cost-of-living" index than the present measures. The use of expenditure data for both a base period and the current period in order to average price change across item categories distinguishes the C-CPI-U from the existing CPI measures, which use only a single expenditure base period to compute the price change over time.; abstract: The Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, was introduced with the release of July data in August 2002. Designated the C-CPI-U, the index supplements the existing Consumer Price Indexes already produced by the BLS: the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The C-CPI-U employs a Tornqvist formula and utilizes expenditure data in adjacent time periods in order to reflect the effect of any substitution that consumers make across item categories in response to changes in relative prices. The new measure is designed to be a closer approximation to a "cost-of-living" index than the present measures. The use of expenditure data for both a base period and the current period in order to average price change across item categories distinguishes the C-CPI-U from the existing CPI measures, which use only a single expenditure base period to compute the price change over time.

This table contains 18 series, with data starting from 1979 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...) Alternative measures (18 items: Consumer Price Index (CPI) excluding food; energy and the effect of indirect taxes; seasonally adjusted; Consumer Price Index (CPI) excluding the effect of indirect taxes; seasonally adjusted; Consumer Price Index (CPI) excluding the effect of indirect taxes; Consumer Price Index (CPI) excluding food; energy and the effect of indirect taxes ...).

In November 2024, the consumer price index (CPI) of electric appliances for personal care in Denmark was measured at 72.7 points, where the year 2015 equals 100. This index measures changes in average costs of most consumer goods and services. It reports inflation and deflation (rising and falling prices).

Hungary HU: Consumer Price Index (CPI): OECD Grouping: Energy data was reported at 113.971 2010=100 in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 102.455 2010=100 for 2020. Hungary HU: Consumer Price Index (CPI): OECD Grouping: Energy data is updated yearly, averaging 69.024 2010=100 from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2021, with 32 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 123.101 2010=100 in 2012 and a record low of 5.771 2010=100 in 1990. Hungary HU: Consumer Price Index (CPI): OECD Grouping: Energy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Hungary – Table HU.OECD.MEI: Consumer Price Index: COICOP 1999: OECD Member: Annual. The index measures average changes in the prices of a basket of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households in Hungary. Types of prices: Prices reflect those that consumers would pay on the day of the survey, including sales taxes. Discounts and rebates that may apply to the specific products purchased are included, the consumer credit charges are excluded. Price collection methods: Most of the collection is done by personal visit to retail outlets using paper-based questionnaires; some major companies with a central pricing policy supply prices directly either via printed form or telephone; some prices are also collected from Internet. Price data of Budapest and the county of Pest are recorded in the Surveys Section, using the BLAISE programme while price data for the other counties and towns are recorded in the competence centre in Debrecen. Treatment of Rentals for housing: Included. Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing: Included and the computation of imputed rent for owner-occupied housing is based on average price changes of the different repair items. Treatment of missing prices: When a price observation is temporarily unavailable in a given month, its price is imputed based upon the price movement of similar products in the same item category in the same geographical area. In particular, since 1998, missing prices are handled based on the method suggested by EUROSTAT ( 6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1749/96) which replaces the price actually surveyed in the previous month - but missing in the reference month - by an estimated (imputed) price, using an index calculated from monthly county prices of the given representative item. The method can be used for two months, following this period of time the price of the product or service that is similar to the earlier one must be collected. Treatment of quality changes: The representative items are revised in every year. Introduction of new products: The list of items is reviewed each December, and when new products have gained sufficient market share they are added to the pricing sample. Treatment of seasonal products: The prices of seasonal items collected for pre-specified months. The HCSO uses the variable weight approach for fresh fruits and vegetables. During the year the weights for these groups are unchanged. However, inside the group the selected items have variable weights that can change month by month.; Index series starts in January 1990