Consumer Price Index Research Publications


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Reports

  • CPI research series using current methods
  • Reconciliation Between the CPI and PCE Price Index. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) undertook a joint project to detail and quantify the differences between the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Chain-type Price Index. A paper summarizing these differences can be found on the BEA website at www.bea.gov/papers/pdf/cpi_pce.pdf. The latest reconciliation tables can be found at www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/nipa_underlying/pce-cpi.asp.
  • Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI - Paper presented to the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) on December 9, 2005 (PDF)
  • Updating the Housing Age-Bias Regression model in the Consumer Price Index (PDF)
  • NEW Guidelines for Quality Adjustment of New Vehicle Prices (PDF)
  • NEW Experimental Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of Age and Older, 1982-2007 (PDF)
  • Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2003 (PDF)
  • Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2004 (PDF)
  • Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2005 (PDF)
  • Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2006 (PDF)
  • Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2007 (PDF)
  • Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2003 - December 2003 (PDF)
  • Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2004 - December 2004 (PDF)
  • Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2005 - December 2005 (PDF)
  • Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2006 - December 2006 (PDF)
  • Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2007 - December 2007 (PDF)
  • Consumer Price Index Users Survey (PDF 262K)
  • Hedonic Quality Adjustment in the U.S. CPI for:

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Last Modified Date: June 26, 2008