USA - Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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USA CPI for July 2010 (Release Date: August 13, 2010)

July 2010
218.011

Recent Consumer Price Index For USA (CPI-U)

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2010	216.687	216.741	217.631	218.009	218.178	217.965	218.011
2009	211.143	212.193	212.709	213.24	213.856	215.693	215.351	215.834	215.969	216.177	216.33	215.949	214.537
2008	211.08	211.693	213.528	214.823	216.632	218.815	219.964	219.086	218.783	216.573	212.425	210.228	215.303
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

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 2010 are as follows (note the the CPI index is for the month prior to the release date):

Reference month - Release Date
January 2010 - February 19, 2010
February 2010 - March 18, 2010
March 2010 - April 14, 2010
April 2010 - May 19, 2010
May 2010 - June 17, 2010
June 2010 - July 16, 2010
July 2010 - August 13, 2010
August 2010 - September 17, 2010
September 2010 - October 15, 2010
October 2010 - November 17, 2010
November 2010 - December 15, 2010