To Construct the Consumer Price Index,the Bureau of Labor Statistics

question 124

Multiple Choice

To construct the Consumer Price Index,the Bureau of Labor Statistics must

• A)Find out what people buy with their incomes and how the prices of what they buy change.
• B)Find out why people buy,what they buy,and how the prices of what they buy change.
• C)Find out what is in the typical consumer market basket on the basis of what producers produce.
• D)Conduct producer surveys to determine how much prices rise.

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