Note on the Chained Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics first began publishing the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers in August 2002. Designated the C-CPI-U, the index supplements the existing indexes already produced by the BLS: the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).

Explanatory materials

A video about the C-CPI-U.
A Questions and Answers page about the C-CPI-U.
A short technical note about the C-CPI-U.
A short methodological note (in PDF format), with formulas.
Introducing the Chained Consumer Price Index (in PDF format), a paper by Robert Cage, John Greenlees and Patrick Jackman presented at the Seventh Meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indices, Paris, France, May 2003.

Data

These tables are available each month in the Consumer Price Index Detailed Report as tables 1C, 24C and 26C.

For more information on the C-CPI-U, write to:

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Division of Consumer Prices and Price Indexes
2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Room 3130
Washington, DC 20212

Or contact Rob Cage either by telephone at (202) 691-6959 or by electronic mail at Cage.Rob@bls.gov.

Last Modified Date: February 18, 2016

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