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Chapter 24.1, Problem 1QQ
To determine
CPI and its measurement.
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Which of the following statements about the CPI is true? How does the PCEPI differ from the CPI?
The CPI _______.
A.
has a bias of approximately 2.0 percentage points a year
B.
is a measure of the change in the amount of money that people need to spend to achieve a given standard of living
C.
measures all the changes in the cost of living
D.
is a relatively useless measure because every year new goods become available and some old goods disappear
The PCEPI _______.
A.
uses the same market basket as the CPI but gives a greater weight to sticky-price items
B.
introduces even more biases into the inflation rate than the CPI
C.
excludes the prices of food and energy
D.
uses the prices of goods and services included in the consumption expenditure component of GDP
The table below lists the CPI and wage values for the United States from different decades.
a. Complete the table by computing the real income for each year shown in the table.
Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places.
Nominal and Real Income
Hanna, who is a 5-year-old girl, eats nothing but pasta, yogurt, and lemonade. Each month her parents buy 19 pounds of pasta, 53
packages of yogurt, and 9 bottles of lemonade. These three items make up a basket of goods and services similar to the much larger
basket used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) when computing the official Consumer Price Index (CPI). The table below lists the
average price for each item in this basket for the past four years.
Hanna's Meals
Year
1
2
3
4
Pasta (dollars
per pound)
$1.96
1.78
1.62
1.47
Yogurt (dollars per Lemonade (dollars per
package)
$0.94
1.04
1.04
1.14
bottle)
$1.86
2.08
1.83
1.88
Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places.
a. For each year, calculate the CPI, using year 1 as the base year.
In year 1, the CPI was
In year 2, the CPI was
In year 3, the CPI was
In year 4, the CPI was
b. For each year, calculate the CPI, using year 3 as the base year.
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