The consumer price index: underlying concepts and caveats.

Part of a special section on the consumer price index (CPI). Correct use of the CPI requires an understanding of its relationship to an ideal cost-of-living index (CLI) and of the problems of implementation. The CPI, produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a fixed market basket approximatio...

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Publicado en:	Monthly Labor Review Vol. 116; pp. 3 - 13
Autor principal:	Fixler, Dennis
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	US Department of Labor December 1993
Materias:	Consumer price indexes Error analysis in mathematics Substitution (Economics) Mathematical models
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost