USA - Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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USA CPI for November 2008

November 2008
212.425

Recent Consumer Price Index For USA (CPI-U)

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2008	211.08	211.693	213.528	214.823	216.632	218.815	219.964	219.086	218.783	216.573	212.425
2007	202.416	203.499	205.352	206.686	207.949	208.352	208.299	207.917	208.49	208.936	210.177	210.036	207.342
2006	198.3	198.7	199.8	201.5	202.5	202.9	203.5	203.9	202.9	201.8	201.5	201.8	201.6
2005	190.7	191.8	193.3	194.6	194.4	194.5	195.4	196.4	198.8	199.2	197.6	196.8	195.3
2004	185.2	186.2	187.4	188	189.1	189.7	189.4	189.5	189.9	190.9	191	190.3	188.9

The CPI for the United States of American is calculated and issued by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. CPI data is calculated and issued on a monthly basis.

The USA releases two distinct sets of CPI data, named CPI-U and CPI-W which are defined by the Department of Labor as:

CPI-U: "The CPI-U includes expenditures by urban wage earners and clerical workers, professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, retirees and others not in the labor force."
CPI-W: "The CPI-W includes only expenditures by those in hourly wage earning or clerical jobs."

Release dates for USA CPI numbers for 2008 are as follows (note the the CPI index is for the month prior to the release date):

Reference month - Release Date
January 2008 - February 20, 2008
February 2008 - March 14, 2008
March 2008 - April 16, 2008
April 2008 - May 14, 2008
May 2008 - June 13, 2008
June 2008 - July 16, 2008
July 2008 - August 14, 2008
August 2008 - September 16, 2008
September 2008 - October 16, 2008
October 2008 - November 19, 2008
November 2008 - December 16, 2008
December 2008 - January 16, 2009