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The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
Next Release: April 15, 2011
March 2011 CPI data are scheduled to be released on April 15, 2011, at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
March 17, 2011
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U increased 0.5
percent in February after rising 0.4 percent in January. The
index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 percent in
February, the same increase as in January.
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Current CPI Economic News Releases
Archived
- Archived CPI News Releases (1994 forward)
Consumer Price Index History Table:
CPI Detailed Report Tables:
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, tables 1-29, February 2011(PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, complete text and tables, January 2011 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables Annual Averages 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables 30-39 Second Half 2010 Semiannual Averages (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables) , December 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables) , November 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables) , October 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), September 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), August 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), July 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables 30-39 First Half 2010 Semiannual Averages (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), June 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), May 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), April 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), March 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), February 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), January 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables Annual Averages 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables 30-39 Second Half 2009 Semiannual Averages (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), December 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), November 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), October 2009(PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), September 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), August 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), July 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables 30-39, First Half Semiannual Averages (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), June 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), May 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), April 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), March 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), February 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), January 2009 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables, Second half 2008, (Tables 30-39) (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), December 2008 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, Tables Annual Average 2008 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Detailed Report, (complete text and tables), November 2008 (PDF)
- Archived CPI Detailed Report Tables October 2000-current
Relative Importance of Items in the Consumer Price Index
December 2010:
- 2007-2008 weights:
- US City Average (TXT)
- Relative Importance of Components in the Consumer Price Index, all areas (PDF)
December 2009:
- 2007-2008 weights:
- US City Average (TXT)
- Relative Importance of Components in the Consumer Price Index, all areas (PDF)
- 2005-2006 weights:
- US City Average (PDF)
December 2008:
- US City Average (TXT)
- Relative Importance of Components in the Consumer Price Index, all areas (PDF)
December 2007:
- 2005-2006 weights:
- US City Average (TXT)
- Relative Importance of Components in the Consumer Price Index, all areas (PDF)
- 2003-2004 weights:
- US City Average (TXT)
December 2006:
- US City Average (TXT)
- Relative Importance of Components in the Consumer Price Index, all areas (PDF)
Department Store Inventory Price Indexes
- February 2011 (PDF)
- January 2011 (PDF)
- December 2010 (PDF)
- November 2010 (PDF)
- October 2010 (PDF)
- September 2010 (PDF)
- August 2010 (PDF)
- July 2010 (PDF)
- June 2010 (PDF)
- May 2010 (PDF)
- April 2010 (PDF)
- March 2010 (PDF)
- February 2010 (PDF)
- January 2010 (PDF)
- December 2009 (PDF)
- November 2009 (PDF)
- October 2009 (PDF)
- September 2009 (PDF)
- August 2009 (PDF)
- July 2009 (PDF)
- June 2009 (PDF)
- May 2009 (PDF)
- April 2009 (PDF)
- March 2009 (PDF)
- February 2009 (PDF)
- January 2009 (PDF)
- December 2008 (PDF)
- November 2008 (PDF)
- October 2008 (PDF)
- September 2008 (PDF)
- August 2008 (PDF)
- July 2008 (PDF)
- June 2008 (PDF)
- May 2008 (PDF)
Publications
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 http://www.bea.gov/papers/pdf/cpi_pce.pdf. The latest reconciliation tables can be found at http://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)
- Guidelines for Quality Adjustment of New Vehicle Prices (PDF)
- Experimental Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of Age and Older, 1982-2007 (Monthly Labor Review April 2008) (PDF)
- NEW Experimental Consumer Price Index for Americans 62 years of Age and Older, 1982-2009 (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)
- Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2008 (PDF)
- Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2009 (PDF)
- NEW Response Rates for the Consumer Price Indexes, 2010 (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)
- Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2008 - December 2008 (PDF)
- Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2009 - December 2009 (PDF)
- NEW Variance Estimates for Changes in the Consumer Price Index, January 2010 - December 2010 (PDF)
- Consumer Price Index Users Survey (PDF 262K)
- Hedonic Quality Adjustment in the U.S. CPI
Recent Monthly Labor Review articles related to the Consumer Price Index
CPI Fact Sheets
How BLS Measures Price Change in the Consumer Price Index for:
Notices
Revised Seasonal Indexes
UPDATED Each year with the release of the January CPI, seasonal adjustment factors are recalculated to reflect price movements from the just-completed calendar year. This routine annual recalculation may result in revisions to seasonally adjusted indexes for the previous 5 years. BLS made available recalculated seasonally adjusted indexes, as well as recalculated seasonal adjustment factors, for the period January 2006 through December 2010, on Tuesday, February 15, 2011.
For information on seasonal adjustment in the CPI, including revised indexes, seasonal factors, methodology, and actions taken in 2010, see our page on seasonal adjustment.
Social Security COLA
Soon after the publication of September CPI data on October 15, 2010, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced the annual change in its benefit payments for the coming year for Social Security's Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. Specific information on how the Social Security Administration uses the CPI to determine cost-of-living adjustments can be found at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/latestCOLA.html.
Expenditure Weight Update
Effective with the January 2010 release the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has updated the consumption expenditure weights in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) to the 2007-08 period. The updated expenditure weights for these indexes replace the 2005-2006 weights that were introduced effective with the January 2008 CPI release. As originally announced by BLS in December 1998, CPI expenditure weights will continue to be updated at two year intervals subsequent to the 2010 updating.
CPI Published Numbers
Effective with the release in February 2007 of the January 2007 Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began to publish its consumer price indexes rounded to three decimal places. Percent changes will be calculated from the three decimal place indexes. Those percent changes will continue to be published to one decimal place. For additional information, please see "Publishing Consumer Price Indexes to Three Decimal Places: Questions and Answers".
Contacts
For hard copies of Consumer Price Index publications or historical data and help with general index questions, including escalator clauses in contracts:
- Information and Analysis: (202) 691-7000
For more information about how we treat and price commodity and service items in the Consumer Price Index:
- Housing (rent and owners' equivalent rent): (202) 691-6991
- Transportation and Household Commodities (including gasoline, new cars, furniture and appliances): (202) 691-6982
- Apparel and Sundry (Nondurable) Commodities: (202) 691-6979
- Services (including medical care, utilities, insurance): (202) 691-6985
For help finding Consumer Price Index data in LABSTAT and for information on seasonal adjustment and other technical issues:
- Production and Control: (202) 691-6968
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Latest Numbers
CPI-U, US City Average, All Items:
NSA
+0.5% in Feb 2011
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SA
+0.5% in Feb 2011
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NSA
+2.1% since Feb 2010
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CPI-U, US City Average, All Items Less Food and Energy:
NSA
+0.4% in Feb 2011
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SA
+0.2% in Feb 2011
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NSA
+1.1% since Feb 2010
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CPI-U, US City Average, Medical Care:
NSA
+0.8% in Feb 2011
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SA
+0.4% in Feb 2011
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NSA
+2.9% since Feb 2010
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CPI-W, US City Average, All Items:
NSA
+0.5% in Feb 2011
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SA
+0.6% in Feb 2011
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NSA
+2.3% since Feb 2010
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