Feb 12, 2025 · Once annual weights used in the construction of the CPI are updated, table 1 is produced using both the old and new weights to allow users to compare them. Tables 2 through 6 contain data for selected categories for the regions, metropolitan areas, population size classes, and cross-classifications of area and population size class.

Feb 12, 2025 · Information about how to use cost weights to calculate aggregate CPI series is available in the Constructing special Consumer Price Indexes (CPIs) and their percent change factsheet. Last Modified Date: February 12, 2025.

Apr 28, 2023 · With the release of January 2023 indexes, the BLS updated the spending weights used to calculate the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Previously, weights reflected consumer spending in 2019 and 2020 and were replaced to reflect changes to consumer spending in 2021.

Jan 24, 2022 · The BLS reports index weights for dozens of categories, subcategories and specific items in the CPI’s basket of goods and services. The biggest category by far is shelter, which accounts for nearly a third of the index.

We explain how measures of consumer prices are computed and what the differences are between the consumer price index (CPI) and the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index.

January 2023 Consumer Price Index Weight Update Starting with January 2023 data, BLS updated weights annually for the Consumer Price Index based on a single calendar year of data, using consumer expenditure data from 2021.

Feb 25, 2025 · The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the CPI as a weighted average of prices for a basket of goods and services representative of aggregate U.S. consumer spending. The CPI is a...

Mar 11, 2024 · The more detailed weights for CPIH, CPI and RPI are presented in our Consumer price inflation, updating weights: Annex A, Tables W1 to W3 dataset. Division 4: Housing, water, electricity, gas...

Feb 12, 2025 · Table 1 compares the index values for January 2025 using the “new” weights (the official indexes based on the 2023 expenditure data) with the “old” weights (what the index values and percentages would be had the previous weights from 2022 remained in place).

Nov 15, 2023 · As the the most cited inflation gauge in the United States, the CPI-U is designed to measure the changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households,...