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The Consumer Price Index: Recent Improvements and Prospective Changes (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 18, 2000
Report Number RL30019
Report Type Report
Authors Brian W. Cashell, Economics Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

As part of a long running effort to make the CPI a better measure of price change, BLS has made a number of changes in recent years which have affected actual measures of inflation and hence both federal outlays and receipts. This report summarizes those changes, presents estimates of their effect on measured inflation, and explains what is new for the CPI in 2000.