Consumer Price Index
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The Consumer Price Index is a key economic indicator that measures changes over time in the average prices paid by consumers for a basket of goods and services, commonly used to track inflation and adjust income-related benefits.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
economic indicator
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price index ⓘ statistical measure ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Consumer Price Index
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CPI
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| appliesTo | consumer sector ⓘ |
| basedOn | basket of goods and services ⓘ |
| calculatedBy |
government statistical offices
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national statistical agencies ⓘ |
| calculatedUsing |
household expenditure weights
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price surveys ⓘ |
| differsFrom |
GDP deflator
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Producer Price Index ⓘ |
| domain |
macroeconomics
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price statistics ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
education
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food ⓘ goods ⓘ housing ⓘ medical care ⓘ recreation ⓘ services ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
base period equals 100
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expressed as an index number ⓘ often published monthly ⓘ published at regular intervals ⓘ weighted average of prices ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
CPI excluding food and energy
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Consumer Price Index self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CPI for urban consumers
Consumer Price Index self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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CPI for wage earners
core CPI ⓘ headline CPI ⓘ |
| measures |
changes in consumer prices over time
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inflation at the consumer level ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
cost of living
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inflation rate ⓘ purchasing power ⓘ real income ⓘ |
| usedFor |
adjusting income-related benefits
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contract indexation ⓘ cost-of-living adjustments ⓘ deflating nominal economic series ⓘ economic policy decisions ⓘ indexing pensions ⓘ indexing social security payments ⓘ indexing tax brackets ⓘ indexing wages ⓘ monetary policy analysis ⓘ tracking inflation ⓘ |
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Consumer Price Index of Canada
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CPI
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CPI for urban consumers
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CPI for wage earners
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Consumer Price Index with a Fixed Interest Rate
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Consumer Price Index with a Fixed Interest Rate
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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
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Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)
subject surface form:
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
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U.S. Consumer Price Index
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Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
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CPI-W
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CPI-U
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Canada Pension Plan
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Consumer Price Index for Australia
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Office for National Statistics
this entity surface form:
Consumer Prices Index
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Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices