Labor Market Information
U.S. Consumer Price Index
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. The CPI affects nearly all Americans because of the many ways it is used. Following are major uses:
As an economic indicator.
As a deflator of other economic series.
As a means of adjusting dollar values.
The CPI reflects spending patterns for all urban consumers and urban wage
earners. It is based on the expenditures of almost all residents of urban
or metropolitan statistical areas, including professionals, the self-employed,
the poor, the unemployed and retired persons as well as urban wage earners
and clerical workers. Not included in the CPI are the spending patterns
of persons living in rural non-metropolitan areas, farm families, persons
in the Armed Forces, and those in institutions, such as prisons and mental
hospitals.
The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in many ways from a complete cost-of-living measure.
For more information, visit the CPI home page.
The U.S. Consumer Price
Index
for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the
U.S., Midwest and Kansas City MO-KS Area |
| |
| |
U.S. City Average |
Midwest Region* |
Kansas City, MO-KS* * |
Oct.
2008 |
Percent Change
from |
Oct.
2008 |
Percent Change
from |
1sthalf 2008 |
Percent Change
from |
| Previous Month |
Previous Year |
Previous Month |
Previous Year |
2ndhalf 2007 |
1sthalf 2007 |
| All Items |
216.6 |
-0.1% |
3.7% |
206.0 |
-1.6% |
3.3% |
200.9 |
2.6% |
4.0% |
| Food & Beverages |
218.7 |
0.5% |
6.1% |
211.7 |
0.3% |
6.3% |
206.7 |
3.3% |
5.1% |
| Housing |
217.4 |
-0.4% |
3.2% |
197.4 |
-0.8% |
2.4% |
193.1 |
2.0% |
3.2% |
| Apparel |
122.2 |
0.9% |
0.3% |
114.7 |
-0.8% |
1.4% |
107.4 |
-0.9% |
-2.8% |
| Transportation |
192.7 |
-5.5% |
4.2% |
192.8 |
-7.2% |
3.6% |
196.8 |
7.8% |
10.7% |
| Medical Care |
365.7 |
0.2% |
2.8% |
365.1 |
0.6% |
2.3% |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Recreation |
114.2 |
0.1% |
2.2% |
115.7 |
-0.1% |
2.4% |
114.4 |
0.8% |
0.4% |
| Educ. & Comm. |
125.7 |
0.1% |
3.4% |
127.3 |
0.2% |
3.2% |
116.7 |
1.0% |
2.4% |
| Other Goods & Servs. |
349.3 |
0.3% |
4.1% |
337.1 |
0.6% |
3.8% |
328.2 |
1.4% |
1.2% |
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* Includes Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
N. Dakota, Ohio, S. Dakota and Wisconsin.
|
* * Includes the following
Kansas counties: Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami
and Wyandotte.
|
* * Includes the following
Missouri counties: Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton,
Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray.
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| Note that the U.S. City Average and the Regional CPI are published monthly and the Metropolitan data is published semi-annually. |
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