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• price index — an index of the changes in the prices of goods and services, based on the prices of the same goods and services at a period arbitrarily selected as a base, usually expressed as 100. [1885 90] * * * Measure of change in a set of prices, consisting …   Universalium

• Price index — A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to… …   Wikipedia

• United States Consumer Price Index — The U.S. Consumer Price Index is a time series measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which started the statistic in 1919, publishes the CPI on a monthly basis. The CPI is calculated by… …   Wikipedia

• consumer price index — an index of the changes in the cost of goods and services to a typical consumer, based on the costs of the same goods and services at a base period. Abbr.: CPI Also called cost of living index. [1945 50] * * * ▪ economics Introduction… …   Universalium

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• Consumer Price Index — consumer price in·dex n: an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage earner purchases of goods and services in some base period – called also cost of living index; Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. Consumer …   Law dictionary

• Consumer Price Index For Urban Wage Earners And Clerical Workers - CPI-W — A variation of the consumer price index, as complied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States, that measures the consumer prices certain workers are exposed to. The index is primarily used on an annual basis, to reflect changes in… …   Investment dictionary

• consumer price index (CPI) — Measure of living costs based on changes in retail prices. Consumer price indexes are widely used to measure changes in the cost of maintaining a given standard of living. The goods and services commonly purchased by the population covered are… …   Universalium

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• Consumer Price Index - CPI — A measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food and medical care. The CPI is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the predetermined basket of goods and …   Investment dictionary

• consumer price index — noun Date: 1948 an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage earner purchases of goods and services expressed as a percentage of the cost of these same goods and services in some base period called also cost of living index …   New Collegiate Dictionary