What exactly is the consumer price index?
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It’s a way the government tracks inflation, by calculating the costs of a range of everyday items and services that average consumers buy. It includes about 80,000 items, including foods, apparel, transportation, housing, recreation, personal care, and more. They create the CPI basket of good through consumer polling to determine what they buy, and it does adjust over time as buying habits change.
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