Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Price Index (CPI) - All Urban Consumers: CPI All Urban Consumers - Unadjusted | Consumer Item: All items, 01/1913 - 03/2015. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 002-022-002
Dataset: Presents the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the all urban consumer population in the United States, by expenditure category. The data are not seasonally adjusted. The indexes are published for the nation as a whole; the four census regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West); urban areas classified by population size (all metropolitan areas over 1.5 million, metropolitan areas smaller than 1.5 million, and all nonmetropolitan urban areas); and metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers in the United States for a market basket of consumer goods and services. The CPI data presented here reflect spending patterns for all urban consumers, a group that represents about 87 percent of the total US population. Included are all residents of urban or metropolitan areas, including professionals, the self-employed, the poor, the unemployed, and retired people, as well as urban wage earners and clerical workers. The CPI does not represent the spending patterns of people living in rural nonmetropolitan areas, farm families, people in the Armed Forces, and those in institutions, such as prisons and mental hospitals. The CPI market basket is determined based on information collected from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES). The Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies goods and services into more than 200 categories, arranged in eight major groups: food and beverages; housing; apparel; transportation; medical care; recreation; education and communication; and other goods and services. Prices for the goods and services used to calculate the CPI are collected in 87 urban areas throughout the country and from about 23,000 retail and service establishments. Data on rents are collected from about 50,000 landlords or tenants. The weight for an item is derived from reported expenditures on that item as estimated by the CES. Most indexes have a base period of 1982-1984 = 100. Other indexes, mainly those that have been added to the CPI program with the 1998 revision, are based more recently.
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Category: Prices, Consumption, and Cost of Living
Subject: Urban Areas, Consumer...