The effects of rounding on the Consumer Price Index.

The article explains the effects of rounding the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the U.S. Calculating percent changes in a price index rounded to three decimal places mitigates a problem that can arise when percent changes are based on the same index rounded to a single decimal place. Because the actu...

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Publicado en:	Monthly Labor Review Vol. 129; no. 10; pp. 80 - 90
Autor principal:	Williams, Elliot
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	US Department of Labor Oct2006
Materias:	United States Price inflation Economic indicators Consumer price indexes Price indexes United States economy
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