Revision of the CPI hospital services component.
The revised “hospital and related services” index, part of the “medical care” major group of the consumer price index (CPI), incorporates several significant improvements in the structural definition and methodology used to gauge hospital price change. The writer outlines the changes that are to be...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 119; pp. 40 - 49 |
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US Department of Labor
December 1996
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