Producer Price Indexes
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Beyond the Numbers: Prices & Spending
Focus on Prices and Spending
- The 2012 PPI Weight Update: How and why does BLS update revenue weights? (4Q 2011) (PDF)
- The Impact of Fuel Surcharges on the PPI (2Q 2011) (PDF)
- What Does the Producer Price Index Measure? (3Q 2010) (PDF)
- PPI Industry or Commodity Data: Which Better Suits Your Needs? (2Q 2010) (PDF)
Monthly Labor Review Articles on PPI Methodology
- PPI and CPI Seasonal Adjustment During the COVID-19 Pandemic (May 2022)
- Measuring the substitution effect in Producer Price Index goods data: 2002–16 (July 2020)
- A new approach for quality-adjusting PPI microprocessors (December 2018)
- Cross-validation of quality-adjustment methods for price indexes (June 2018)
- Comparing NAICS-based Producer Price Index industry net output data and International Price Program import data (March 2018) (HTML)
- Crude petroleum prices and retail fuel margins: an empirical examination (January 2018) (HTML)
- New PPI net inputs to industry indexes (October 2015) (HTML)
- Scheduled passenger air transportation in the Producer Price Index: improvements and trends (September 2013) (HTML)
- Methodological Overview of the PPI FD-ID Aggregation System (February 2011) (PDF)
- PPI and CPI seasonal adjustment: an update (July 2010) (PDF)
- New wherever-provided services and construction indexes for PPI (August 2009) (PDF)
- Price measures of new vehicles: a comparison (July 2008) (PDF)
- Price transmission: from crude petroleum to plastics products (December 2006) (PDF)
- Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison (December 2006) (PDF)
- Price transmission within the PPI for intermediate goods (May 2005) (PDF)
- Factors affecting beef and cattle producer prices movements (May 2005) (PDF)
- Consumer gasoline prices: an empirical investigation (July 2003) (PDF)
- An empirical analysis of price transmission by stage of processing (November 2002) (PDF)
- Comparing PPI energy indexes to alternative data sources (December 1998) (PDF)
- The 1996 grain price shock: how did it affect food inflation? (August 1998) (PDF)
- Improving the PPI samples for prescription pharmaceuticals (October 1997) (PDF)
- Effect of 1992 weights on Producer Price Indexes (July 1996) (PDF)
- Hospital price inflation: what does the new PPI tell us? (July 1996) (PDF)
- Pricing practices for tobacco products, 1980-94 (December 1994) (PDF)
- Effect of updated weights on Producer Price Indexes (March 1993) (PDF)
- New price index for the computer industry (October 1990) (PDF 1,150K)
- New stage of process price system for Producer Price Index (April 1988) (PDF 4,202K)
Further Information
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Last Modified Date: June 28, 2024