The Consumer Price Index is the most widely publicized inflation measure in the US, and is the one most often used as the basis of cost-of-living adjustments. It is a product of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (in the Dept. of Labor). See

http://stats.bls.gov/cpihome.htm

Economy-wide measures of price change (inflation) are also developed as part of the Gross Domestic Product accounting process. This is done by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (in the Dept. of Commerce), though it makes extensive use of data collected by the BLS (that is, it is not a totally separate exercise). See

http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/sumnip-d.html#PriceAnn

On 21 May 1997 18:21:15 GMT, black@acsu.buffalo.edu (Necia Black) wrote:

>Hi all, >To transform some data, I would like to know the annual US inflation rates >from 1990 to the present. I have searched and searched the web without being >successful. Does anyone know an easy source from which I can obtain this >information? Thanks! >Cheers? >-- > >Necia A. Black, RN, Ph.D. e-mail: black@acsu.buffalo.edu >231 Computing Center Web URL: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~black >SUNY-Buffalo FAX: (716) 645-3734