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cpi_data: Price Inflation Data

Description

This data set contains monthly observations of annualized price inflation from January 1949 until November 2021. Price inflation is calculated by taking the log difference between the CPI for Urban Consumers in one period and its value exactly one year earlier.

Usage

cpi_data

Arguments

Format

Data frame with 875 rows and 7 variables:

date

date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format

pi

price inflation in decimal format

pi.1

price inflation last month

pi.2

price inflation two months ago

pi.3

price inflation three months ago

pi.6

price inflation six months ago

pi.12

price inflation one year ago