Your Guide to the Consumer Price Index

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This publication was prepared for the general public interested in obtaining a brief non-technical introduction the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It poses and answers some of the more frequently asked questions relating to the construction, interpretation and use of this index.

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Product:	Your Guide to the Consumer Price Index
Catalogue no.:	62-557-XIB
Frequency:	Occasional
Status:	Ongoing/Available

Latest issue:	1996	Free	View
Release date:	April 1, 1998

Subscription:	one year (365 days)	N/A

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Prices and price indexes
Consumer price indexes

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