Date:         Thu, 22 May 1997 13:01:21 GMT
Reply-To:     Howard Schreier <HSchreier@IGC.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Howard Schreier <HSchreier@IGC.ORG>
Organization: Institute for Global Communications
Subject:      Re: Annual inflation rates? Where found?

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
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