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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Consumer Price Index > Methods > Additional Resources

CPI Additional Resources

Chained CPI

Chained CPI Information (HTML)
Comparison between Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U All-US Indexes in the Housing Sector (2000-2004) (PDF)
Comparison between Chained CPI-U and Regular CPI-U All-US Indexes at Lower Item-Aggregate Levels(2000-2003) (PDF)
Random Errors and Superlative Indexes (HTML)

Additional Resources

CPI Overview (HTML)
2018 Geographic Revision Notice (HTML)
CPI-PCE code mapping (PDF)
CPI Requirements of CE (PDF)
Comparison of BLS price and spending measures (HTML)
Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI (PDF)
Defining an Outlet: What Characteristics are Truly Price Determining? (PDF)
Sampling and Weighting of Commodity and Service Units for the Elementary Level of Computation of the U.S. Consumer Price Index (PDF)
Evaluating a Calibration Weighting Scheme for Elementary Indexes for Commodities and Services in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (PDF)
Estimating Dynamic Price Indexes (PDF)
A Note on the Effects of Extreme Price Values on Price Indexes (PDF)
Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI (HTML)
New Evidence on Outlet Substitution Effects in Consumer Price Index Data (HTML)
Improving the CPI's Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model Averaging (HTML)
1998 revision item concordance (HTML)
1998 revision item structure (HTML)

Last Modified Date: July 8, 2019