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    • Consumer Price Index (CPI)

    Metadata Updated: May 16, 2022

    The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. Indexes are available for the U.S. and various geographic areas. Average price data for select utility, automotive fuel, and food items are also available. Prices for the goods and services used to calculate the CPI are collected in 75 urban areas throughout the country and from about 23,000 retail and service establishments. Data on rents are collected from about 43,000 landlords or tenants.

    More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://www.bls.gov/cpi

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date May 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 16, 2022

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from BLS Data

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 16, 2022
    Publisher Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier DOL-BLS-104
    Data First Published 2019-12-11
    Data Last Modified 2019
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 012:20
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 2762624f-7498-4ed8-a1cf-1c010ca6b6ea
    Harvest Source Title BLS Data
    Homepage URL http://www.bls.gov/cpi
    License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 012:032
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Department of Labor > Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 35750c1ea51049b225b41a7a7b048324795490b2
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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