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	Consumer price index -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is a price index which tracks the prices of a specified set of consumer goods and services, providing a measure of (A general and progressive increase in prices) inflation.
		The CPI is a fixed quantity (An index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time) price index and a sort of (An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer) cost-of-living index.
		Prices for the goods and services used to calculate the CPI are collected in 87 urban areas throughout the country and from about 23,000 retail and service establishments.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/consumer_price_index.htm (1050 words)

	Encyclopedia: Consumer Price Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In economics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI, also retail price index) is a statistical measure of a weighted average of prices of a specified set of goods and services purchased by wage earners in urban areas.
		It is a price index which tracks the prices of a specified set of consumer goods and services, providing a measure of inflation.
		Due to continual research and refinement of index estimation procedures, such as hedonic regression, changes in the quality of priced goods and services are separated from changes in the price of such goods and services.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Consumer-Price-Index (2096 words)

	The Consumer Price Index
		An index number is a derived quantity that describes the ratio of a quantity and its value at a base period (or its values at a standard).
		The final price is actually a weighted sum, the weights reflecting the proportion that the average family spends on various categories and population of the geographic area.
		While the CPI number is derived from the price of the market basket, it is actually unitless; to be precise it is the ratio of the price of the market basket in a given year to the price in the base year multiplied by 100.
	qrc.depaul.edu /djabon/cpi.htm (5623 words)

	Latest release from the Consumer Price Index. Tuesday, October 25, 2005
		With the upward pressure exerted by the substantial increase in gasoline prices, the CPI rose by 0.9% in September to 129.1 (1992=100).
		For example, the average price of regular unleaded gasoline at self-service stations in Montréal was 119.0 cents per litre in September compared with 107.4 in August.
		The main factor behind the upward pressure was the rise in prices for women's clothing (+7.5%), while most of the downward pressure was due to a 0.7% decrease in prices for homeowners' maintenance and repairs.
	www.statcan.ca /english/Subjects/Cpi/cpi-en.htm (1594 words)

	Price index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A price index is any single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities over a period.
		Since not all prices and quantities of purchases can be recorded, a representative sample is used instead.
		There are two main methods to calculate price indices, the Paasche index (after the German economist Hermann Paasche) and the Laspeyre index (after the German economist Etienne Laspeyres).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Price_index (172 words)

	House Price Index Methodology
		The Halifax House Price Index is the UK's longest running monthly house price series covering the whole country from January 1983. The UK Index is derived from the mortgage data of the country's largest mortgage lender, which provides a robust and representative sample of the entire UK market.
		The indices calculated are 'standardised' and represent the price of a typically transacted house. The need for 'standardisation' arises because no two houses are identical and may differ according to a variety of characteristics relating to the physical attributes of the houses themselves or to their locations.
		In summary, prices are disaggregated into their constituent parts using a commonly used statistical technique called multivariate regression analysis. This allows values to be attributed to the various qualitative characteristics (type of property, region, etc.) and quantitative characteristics (age of property, number of habitable rooms, garages, bathrooms, etc.) of a property.
	www.hbosplc.com /economy/indexmethodology.asp (342 words)

	Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy - Contract Pricing Reference Guide
		Index numbers are more accurate if they are constructed using actual prices paid for a single commodity, product or service rather than the more general aggregated index.
		The finished good price may also be strongly influenced by trends in direct labor, cost of capital, etc. Accuracy can be improved through use of a weighted average index which represents changes in both labor and material elements of price.
		Price indexes should be used to compensate for the effect these general price changes.
	www.acq.osd.mil /dpap/contractpricing/vol2chap1.htm (3205 words)

	The Daily, Friday, March 21, 2003. Consumer Price Index
		Price increases in the western provinces were lower, ranging from 5.0% to 6.6%.
		Price decreases were mainly due to favourable weather conditions in exporting countries, as well as to the simultaneous harvesting of crops from many different countries.
		The transportation index (+1.6%), led by the increase in gasoline prices, contributed the most to the rise in the index.
	www.statcan.ca /Daily/English/030321/d030321a.htm (1219 words)

	AusStats : 6345.0 Labour Price Index, Australia
		Original indexes are compiled for various combinations of state/territory, sector (private/public), broad industry group and broad occupation group.
		Seasonally adjusted and trend indexes are only compiled for total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses for the private sector, public sector and all sectors.
		Most of the impact of the SNR on the wage price index traditionally occurs in the September and December quarters.
	www.abs.gov.au /Ausstats/abs@.nsf/e8ae5488b598839cca25682000131612/4fc15613f59969f2ca2568a9001393a4!OpenDocument (702 words)

	Housing Price Index
		The U.S. national housing price index (average U.S. home prices) increased from 335.01 in the fourth quarter of 2003 (2003Q4) to 340.69 in the fourth quarter of 2004 (2004Q4), an increase of 11.17 percent from 2003Q4 to 2004Q4.
		The Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA had the highest index annual rate of change and joined two other Nevada MSAs, three California MSAs and three Florida MSAs in the top 10 MSAs with the highest percent change in the housing price index between the 4th quarter 2003 and the 4th quarter 2004.
		The HPI is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices.
	www.proximityone.com /hpi.htm (700 words)

	FT.com / Your money - FT House Price Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The new FT House Price Index MA is now calculated on a mix adjusted as well as a seasonally adjusted basis.
		The FT House Price Index MA is calculated by Acadametrics and is designed to provide the most accurate guide to the real trends in residential property prices using Land Registry data (the only complete data source for domestic property prices in England and Wales).
		FT House Price Index results to Oct 05 are based on Land Registry published data, smoothed, seasonally and mix adjusted, and revised with updated LR results as available.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/1d089640-fb60-11d8-8ad5-00000e2511c8.html (529 words)

	Consumer Price Index Summary
		A 2.3 percent increase in the index for club membership dues and fees for participant sports was partially offset by declines in the indexes for admissions to sporting events and for toys--down 2.5 and 1.6 percent, respectively.
		For analyzing general price trends in the economy, seasonally adjusted changes are usually preferred since they eliminate the effect of changes that normally occur at the same time and in about the same magnitude every year--such as price movements resulting from changing climatic conditions, production cycles, model changeovers, holidays, and sales.
		For the Nonalcoholic beverages index, the procedure was used to offset the effects of a large increase in coffee prices due to adverse weather.
	money.cnn.com /1999/12/14/economy/economy/cpi_summary.htm (2195 words)

	ALA \| U.S. Serial Services Price Index, 2002
		The selection of titles surveyed and determination of prices were in accordance with the guidelines of the American National Standard for Library and Information Sciences and Related Publishing Practices—Library Materials—Criteria for Price Indexes (ANSI Z39.20-1983).
		Prices for approximately 750 of the sample titles were extracted from the serial subscription database of divine/Faxon Library Services.
		In 1998, the base year for this index was set at 1984 to ease comparison with other price indexes.
	www.ala.org /al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=selectedarticles&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=9757 (716 words)

	Consumer Price Index remains flawed, economist
		Tracking thousands of products and services for the nation's consumer price index is a vast and in many ways impressive effort, but one that economist Michael Boskin believes is fundamentally flawed.
		Today people are beating the price of theaters by renting videotapes, forgoing the cost of both the theater and the baby-sitter.
		It relates to the fact that the index was never intended to be a cost-of-living measure but is used as if it was.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1997/may7/boskin.html (1134 words)

	BTS \| Air Travel Price Index
		The city level indexes permit analysis of the effects of local airline industry developments including new carrier entrants, the departure or downsizing of established carriers, changes in airline marketing plans or pricing structures, and movements in the local economy.
		The index uses the first quarter of 1995 as the reference point (expressed as the number 100) against which all subsequent quarterly prices are measured.
		A price index, by contrast, is designed to isolate changes in price for services that are essentially identical, e.g., the exact same trip route flown on the same carrier in different time periods.
	www.bts.gov /help/air_travel_price_index.html (1765 words)

	AusStats : 6401.0 Consumer Price Index, Australia
		The increase in the recreation index was mainly due to domestic holiday travel and accommodation (+3.4%), overseas holiday travel and accommodation (+2.0%), sports participation (+2.1%) and pets, pet foods and supplies (+4.0%).
		The rise in fruit prices was mainly due to a sharp increase in the price of bananas in August and September, as supplies tightened at the end of a growing cycle.
		The rise in beer prices was mainly due to the increase in Federal excise and customs duty from 1 August, with some respondents also citing manufacturers' price rises and increased transportation costs as contributing factors.
	www.abs.gov.au /Ausstats/abs@.nsf/e8ae5488b598839cca25682000131612/938da570a34a8edaca2568a900139350!OpenDocument (1785 words)

	FAQ: What is the "market-based" PCE price index?
		Specifically, the price index provides a measure of the prices paid by persons for domestic purchases of goods and services, which may be a useful measure of consumer prices for some analytical purposes.
		The index is composed of PCE components that are deflated by either a detailed consumer price index (CPI) or a producer price index.
		Two price indexes are prepared: An overall market- based PCE measure and a market-based PCE measure that excludes food and energy.
	www.bea.gov /bea/faq/national/markbsdPCE.htm (288 words)

	PNC Bank - The Annual
		The total cost has climbed to $17,297, a 1.6 percent annualized increase over 20 years, but services now account for 74 percent of the index, indicating a steady rise in the cost of skilled labor while the price of two turtle doves and three French hens may be a little easier on your wallet.
		The 2.4 percent year-over-year increase in the index closely mirrors that of the government’s Consumer Price Index – a widely used measure of U.S. inflation.
		However the price for French hens and geese saw significant increases, which may be due to fewer hatchlings during this breeding cycle creating an imbalance in the supply-demand chain.
	www.pncbank.com /12days (736 words)

	Inflation Calculators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year to another using the Import Price Index (MPI) inflation index.
		The export and import price indexes measure the transaction prices of goods and services exported from or imported into the United States.
		This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year to another using the Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation index.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /bu2/inflate.html (566 words)

	Consumer Price Index (CPI) Information
		The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) measures the percentage change in prices faced by urban consumers and covers approximately 87 percent of the population.
		The Consumer Price Index for Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is sometimes referred to as the "blue collar measure." It is a subset of the CPI-U. Its market basket reflects the expenditures of urban households that derive more than half their income from clerical and hourly wage jobs.
		At the beginning of 1998, the Seattle-Tacoma index was renamed the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton index and expanded to include Island, Kitsap, and Thurston counties.
	www.mrsc.org /finance/cpipage.htm (421 words)

	CRB Index: Weekly Price Chart
		Price is above the moving average so the trend is up.
		In evaluating the short term, plot1 represents the fast moving average, and plot2 is the slow moving average.
		The swing index has crossed zero, identifying this bar as a short term pivot point.
	futures.tradingcharts.com /chart/CR/W (910 words)

	Consumer price index up 0.2%; core-CPI up 0.3% - May. 14, 2004
		But the overall consumer price index, the broader measure of inflation at the retail level, increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, compared with a 0.5 percent rise in March.
		Gasoline prices gained 3.7 percent and hit a new high, but after the seasonal adjustment the gas prices showed up in the index as a 0.3 percent decrease.
		Food prices, which posted a sharp 1.3 percent increase on the April producer price index, a measure of wholesale prices, were up only 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis on the CPI.
	money.cnn.com /2004/05/14/news/economy/cpi (707 words)

	JoC Online: Industrial Price Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Journal of Commerce -- Economic Cycle Research Institute Industrial Price Index (JOC-ECRI IPI) is designed to yield a cyclical leading indicator of the inflation cycle.
		Superior performance is achieved by the careful selection and combination of the components of the index, which is made up of a broad basket of the industrial commodities that have the best cyclical relationships with inflation.
		The foundation for the JOC-ECRI IPI is the work of Geoffrey H. Moore and his research staff, who have studied economic and inflation cycles for decades.
	www.joc.com /data/pricesindexes.shtml (111 words)

	Gillespie Research: 3. Consumer Price Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Elements of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had their roots in the mid-1880s, when the Bureau of Labor, later known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), was asked by Congress to measure the impact of new tariffs on prices.
		The identical basket of goods would be priced at prevailing market costs for each period, and the period-to-period change in the cost of that market basket represented the rate of inflation in terms of maintaining a constant standard of living.
		These two series tend to move together and are based on frequent price sampling, which is supposed to yield something close to an average monthly price measure by component.
	www.gillespieresearch.com /cgi-bin/bgn/article/id=343 (1638 words)

	AuctionBytes Releases 2003 Price Index of eBay Collectibles
		The index shows prices have come down every year since 2000, the first year that data was collected by Auctionbytes.
		The decline in prices on eBay is not surprising given its popularity, according to David Steiner, President of AuctionBytes, which released the study.
		Although the drop in prices is less dramatic than last year, it marks the third straight year that prices of collectibles included in the index has fallen.
	www.auctionbytes.com /cab/abu/y203/m05/abu0095/s02 (393 words)

	PPI Detailed Report: New Producer Price Index for the Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers Industry—NAICS ...
		This index, NAICS 524114--Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, appears in table 5 of this publication and is available online via the BLS homepage: www.bls.gov. Data are available for December 2002 to present; prior to December 2003, the index is published as discontinued series SIC 6325.
		The indexes for this industry measure the change in the total premium (employee and employer contribution) paid to the insurer plus the return on the invested portion of the premium.
		To track price movement for the selected policy, insurance companies participating in the survey are presented with two options.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JYG/is_2004_July/ai_n6227670 (502 words)

	Consumer Price Index
		The Consumer Price Index information page is your link to all the information about the US Consumer Price Index- (CPI-U).
		The Current US Consumer Price Index - All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) is compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly and is based upon a 1984 base of 100.
		This is done by taking the current CPI-U Index and subtracting the Consumer Price index from a year ago and dividing the result by the Consumer Price index from a year ago.
	inflationdata.com /inflation/Consumer_Price_Index/CPI.asp (392 words)

	CBS - Last Month's Price indices
		Price index of input in residential building (Base : January 2004=100)
		Price index of input in road construction (Base : January 1996=100)
		Price index of input in agriculture branch (Base : Average 2000=100)
	www.cbs.gov.il /madad1-en.htm (92 words)

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