The BLS also publishes the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers ... the current cost of the weighted average basket of products, while the second is used to analyze ...

The Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers measures the monthly change in consumer prices for a representative basket of goods ... from clerical and hourly wage jobs. CPI-W is used ...

The Consumer Price Index “is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer ... private sector wage and salary increases, poverty ...

The discrepancy is because the cost of rent and medical expenses are not used to calculate the consumer price index, from ...