Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data

Monthly, quarterly, or annual CPI-U price indexes

cpi_u_monthly_nsa

cpi_u_monthly_sa

cpi_u_quarterly_nsa

cpi_u_quarterly_sa

cpi_u_annual

Format

The data frames cpi_u_monthly_sa and cpi_u_monthly_nsa contain, respectively, seasonally adjusted or not seasonally adjusted monthly price index levels of the CPI-U. They have three columns:

year

numeric year

month

numeric calendar month (1-12)

cpi_u

value of the CPI-U price index

#' @format The data frames cpi_u_quarterly_sa and cpi_u_quarterly_nsa contain, respectively, seasonally adjusted or not seasonally adjusted quarterly price index levels of the CPI-U. They have three columns:

year

numeric year

quarter

numeric calendar quarter (1-4)

cpi_u

value of the CPI-U price index

The data frame cpi_u_annual contains the annual price index level of the CPI-U. It has two columns:

year

numeric year

cpi_u

value of the CPI-U price index

See also

cpi_u_rs_monthly_nsa and cpi_u_rs_annual for the CPI-U-RS, an index that is more consistent over time than the CPI-U and incorporates more recent improvements to the CPI-U into the entire time series. The quarterly cpi_u_quarterly_nsa and cpi_u_quarterly_sa series are the quarterly means of their respective monthly series.

Examples

cpi_u_monthly_nsa
#> # A tibble: 1,055 × 3
#>     year month cpi_u
#>    <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#>  1  1937     1  14.1
#>  2  1937     2  14.1
#>  3  1937     3  14.2
#>  4  1937     4  14.3
#>  5  1937     5  14.4
#>  6  1937     6  14.4
#>  7  1937     7  14.5
#>  8  1937     8  14.5
#>  9  1937     9  14.6
#> 10  1937    10  14.6
#> # ℹ 1,045 more rows