Calculating the consumer price index is based on a basket which includes all goods and services that are relevant components of consumption in Germany. The basket is continuously updated in order to ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the CPI as a weighted average of prices for a basket of goods and services representative of aggregate U.S. consumer spending. The CPI is a measure ...

To calculate inflation, the ONS uses a typical basket of goods to work out the rate at which the cost of goods and services are rising. To do that, it looks at what households are buying.

A major overhaul to accurately reflect modern consumer behaviour has seen StatsSA shake up its basket of goods and services ...

The Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) measures changes in U.S. consumer prices based on a representative basket of goods and services. The term urban in the index refers to ...

StatsSA has added 71 new products to the basket of goods and services used to measure consumer inflation. Nodar Chernishev / iStock At the same time, it removed 53 products and reorganised 29 products ...

What is the Consumer Price Index? The CPI measures the average change in prices that urban consumers pay for "a market basket" of goods and services over a specified period. This market basket ...