________________________________________________________________________________ | | | PUBLIC NOTIFICATION: Mail-out of the Southwest Statistical Summary | | has been discontinued; see www.bls.gov/ro6/home.htm#notices for details. | |________________________________________________________________________________| CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS (CPI-U) U.S. CITY AVERAGE, DALLAS-FORT WORTH, AND HOUSTON (1982-84=100) AUGUST 2008 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | U.S. City Average | Dallas-Fort Worth | Houston- | | | | | Galveston-Brazoria | | | Percent Change:| Percent Change:| Percent Change:| | | 12- 1- | 12- 1- | 12- 2- | | INDEX ITEMS | Index month month | Index month month | Index month month | |______________________________________|_________________________|_________________________|_________________________| | All Items | 219.086 5.4 -0.4 | | 192.723 4.9 -0.4 | | | | | | | Food and beverages | 216.419 5.9 0.5 | | 200.440 7.9 1.7 | | Food | 216.422 6.1 0.5 | | 200.192 8.1 1.7 | | Food at home | 217.259 7.5 0.7 | 203.359 9.6 0.4 | 205.900 9.9 1.9 | | Food away from home | 217.063 4.5 0.3 | | 189.403 6.0 1.4 | | Alcoholic beverages | 215.094 3.3 0.3 | | 198.117 5.4 1.6 | | Housing | 219.148 3.8 -0.2 | | 177.831 4.7 -0.5 | | Shelter | 247.985 2.4 0.0 | 184.762 2.0 -0.1 | 191.916 2.4 -0.6 | | Rent of primary residence 1/ | 244.181 3.8 0.3 | 185.124 4.2 0.5 | 184.343 3.6 0.4 | | Owners' equivalent rent 1/2/ | 252.957 2.5 0.2 | 198.531 2.8 0.3 | 177.697 3.3 -0.1 | | Fuels and utilities | 235.650 15.3 -1.4 | | 213.759 13.5 0.0 | | Gas (piped) and electricity 1/ | 218.656 14.7 -1.4 | 279.896 18.0 0.3 | 209.827 14.4 -0.2 | | Electricity 1/ | 200.795 9.1 0.9 | 253.052 14.3 -0.4 | 203.455 9.4 0.0 | | Utility (piped) gas service 1/ | 272.982 29.3 -6.4 | 391.809 40.5 3.6 | 238.804 50.7 -1.2 | | Household furnishings & operations | 128.013 1.2 0.1 | | 126.440 7.0 -0.5 | | Apparel | 116.376 1.7 1.8 | | 147.854 -0.2 5.2 | | Transportation | 206.739 12.1 -2.9 | | 181.412 8.0 -3.7 | | Private transportation | 201.779 11.8 -3.0 | | 179.915 7.8 -3.6 | | Motor Fuel | 323.822 35.9 -7.4 | 336.605 34.7 -7.9 | 315.203 34.0 -6.8 | | Gasoline | 321.511 35.6 -7.4 | 334.378 34.5 -7.9 | 313.089 33.8 -6.6 | | Medical care | 364.477 3.3 0.1 | | 339.372 1.3 0.0 | | Recreation 3/ | 113.786 2.4 0.4 | | 108.308 0.1 2.2 | | Education & communication 3/ | 124.653 3.6 1.0 | | 108.588 1.9 0.2 | | Other goods and services | 346.990 4.1 0.1 | | 301.589 4.6 -0.8 | | | | | | | Special indexes | | | | | Energy | 266.283 27.2 -5.2 | 309.404 26.7 -4.3 | 261.544 24.7 -4.2 | | All items less shelter | 210.264 6.8 -0.6 | | 192.585 5.8 -0.4 | | All items less food and energy | 216.476 2.5 0.2 | | 185.386 1.4 -0.1 | | All items (1967=100) | 656.284 | | 618.133 | |______________________________________|_________________________|_________________________|_________________________| | CPI FOR URBAN WAGE EARNERS | | | | | AND CLERICAL WORKERS (CPI-W) | | | | | All Items | 215.247 5.9 -0.5 | |193.206 5.9 -0.3 | | All Items (1967=100) | 641.155 | |616.628 | |______________________________________|_________________________|_________________________|_________________________| 1/ This index series was calculated using a Laspeyres estimator. All other item stratum index series converted to a geometric means estimator in January 1999. 2/ Full series title is "owners' equivalent rent of primary residence"; index base is December 1982=100. 3/ Indexes on a December 1997 = 100 base. Note 1: Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria are Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Note 2:The food at home, energy, and shelter sub-component indexes are compiled monthly for Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. Full surveys, which produce the All Items Indexes and major components, are conducted every two months. Full surveys are published for the odd-numbered months for Dallas and for the even-numbered months for Houston. Last updated: September 16, 2008
Last Modified Date: October 16, 2008