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Are There Good Alternatives to the CPI?, Volume 3, Issue 6

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Are There Good Alternatives to the CPI?, Volume 3, Issue 6

DATE: April 1997

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ABSTRACT: Critics of the consumer price index—the most widely watched inflation measure—contend that it overstates inflation by as much as 1 percentage point a year. Some have argued that alternative indexes eliminate the CPI's upward bias and offer a more accurate reading of inflation levels. A closer look at these alternatives, however, reveals that they have substantive problems of their own, suggesting that the CPI, though flawed, is still our most reliable indicator of changes in inflation.

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Research and Statistics Group. "Are There Good Alternatives to the CPI?, Volume 3, Issue 6," Current Issues in Economics and Finance (April 1997). https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/6879/item/627876, accessed on March 28, 2023.

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