An experimental Consumer Price Index for the poor.

The writers present experimental Laspeyres, Paasche, and Fisher price indexes for poor consumers. Requests for indexes for the poor stem from a belief that the movement of relative prices for this group might differ from that of the general population. If poor consumers do face differential price...

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Published in:	Monthly Labor Review Vol. 119; pp. 32 - 43
Main Authors:	Garner, Thesia I., Johnson, David S., Kokoski, Mary F.
Format:	Article
Published:	US Department of Labor September 1996
Subjects:	Consumption (Economics) Consumer price indexes Poor people United States
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