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Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Measures the rate of price change for food, shelter, fuel, apparel, transportation, medical care, entertainment, and other service items
  • The CPI Home Page provides an explanation of CPI data collection, testimony before Congress, the most current press releases of national data, and several options for time series access
  • The majority of information appears under Data - Most Frequently Requested Series
    CPI Calculator
    • Choose the U.S. or one of twenty regions/cities
    • Enter a dollar amount for a beginning year and obtain its value in another year
     
    Economic Time Series (Ted Bos)
    • Monthly national, state and metropolitan labor force, unemployment, and unemployment rate data collected by the federal government since the 1970s
    • Money supply, savings deposits and ratios, treasury bill rates, loans, disposable personal income
    • National data includes employment by industry
    • ASCII format for easy viewing
    Historic Consumer Price Index, 1800-1998 (UMich)
    • Annual CPI, 1800-1912, copied from Historical Statistics of the United States
    • Monthly CPI, 1913-June 1998, using Bureau of Labor Statistics tabulation
    • Both use the base 1967=100
    • Updates to the 1967 base year were suspended after June 1998;
    • Historic CPI Data (Base=1982-84) is available on the BLS web site on a monthly basis since 1913
     
    How Much is That?
    • Purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since 1665 and British pound since 1264
    • Historic interest rates, price of gold, and GDP for both countries with many series dating back 800 years
    • U.S. and British exchange rates with 40 other countries for a minimum of 90 years
     
    Inflation Conversion Factors (Robert Sahr/Oregon State)
    • Factors for converting the value of a dollar at each year since 1800 into current dollars (1982/84, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)
    • Graphs illustrate current and constant prices of movie tickets, the national debt, Congressional pay, campaign expenditures, the minimum wage, and Social Security benefits
    STAT-USA (Commerce Department)
    • State of the Nation includes thousands of current and time series tables on national income, trade, prices, treasury notes, employment, etc.
    • GLOBUS, National Trade Data Bank and Trade Opportunities Program Bulletin analyze the business climate in foreign countries and provide trade leads (contacts, requests for proposals)
    • Includes basic foreign trade statistics
    • Includes current press releases of detailed Consumer, Producer, and International price indexes
    What is the Dollar Worth?
    • Annual consumer price index since 1913
    • Calculate value of dollar between any given year
     
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