The Consumer Price Index (CPI) Tracks Material Price Movements from Quarter

question 74

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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) tracks material price movements from quarter to quarter, is scaled to a base year (1988), and tracks the percentage increase in material commodity prices based on a sample of industrial purchasers.

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