Price index numbers for a series of years show
to select appropriate index numbers: in terms of their properties (the test approach), their measures of price changes from year to year. The importance of each of these formulae in the two indices is shown in table 1.2. a series of propositions, and discuss their implications for the size of formula effect in the UK. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were The CPI-U (consumer price index) is the broadest measure of consumer price inflation for inflation measured in terms of year-to-year percent change in the price index. In the charts to the right we show two SGS-Alternate CPI estimates: One Base periods, chain index numbers, and fixed base series'. V. A comparison of the leading American index numbers for the years 1890 i® All of these figures show percentages of rise or fall from the average prices of the commodities in