Dataset
Consumer Price Index
Additional facts from data.gov
Dataset Summary
- Date Released: 1913
- Date Updated: Monthly
- Time Period: Entire month
- Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
- Frequency: Monthly
- Specialized Data Category Designation: Statistical
Contributing Agency Information
- Citation: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/#data
- Agency Program Page: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
- Agency Data Series Page: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=cu
Miscellaneous Facts
- Additional Metadata: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/cu.txt
This is the original data as harvested from data.gov
Data Summary
- Data Collection Instrument: http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homtoc.htm
- Data Dictionary/Variable List: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=cu
- Technical Documentation: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
- Granularity: US, Regions, Large Metro Areas
- Unit of Analysis: Consumer price indexes, Retail Inflation, Retail price index
- Geographic Coverage: US, Regions, Large Metro Areas
- Unit of Analysis: http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homtoc.htm