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Consumer Price Index


Table 1. Annual average percent changes in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Boston-Brockton-Nashua, MA-NH-ME-CT and U.S. City Average
Expenditure category Percent change from previous year
2009 2009 2010 2010
Boston U.S. Boston U.S.

All items

 -0.7 -0.4 1.6 1.6

Food and beverages

 2.4 1.9 1.2 0.8

Housing

 -1.8 0.4 -0.8 -0.4

Apparel

 1.8 1.0 2.2 -0.5

Transportation

 -8.1 -8.3 8.8 7.9

Medical care

 5.1 3.2 4.3 3.4

Recreation

 3.0 0.9 0.1 -0.8

Education and communication

 3.7 3.0 1.2 2.0

Other goods and services

 9.1 6.7 2.0 3.4

Special indexes:

Food

 2.3 1.8 1.1 0.8

Energy

 -23.2 -18.4 9.0 9.5

All items less energy

 1.9 1.7 0.9 0.9

All items less food and energy

 1.8 1.7 0.9 1.0

Commodities

 -2.9 -2.9 3.5 2.9

Services

 0.8 1.4 0.4 0.8

NOTE: Local area indexes are byproducts of the national CPI program. Each local index has a smaller sample size than that for the national index and is, therefore, subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error. As a result, local area indexes show greater volatility than the national index, although their long-term trends are similar. Therefore, the Bureau of Labor Statistics strongly urges users to consider adopting the national average CPI for use in their escalation clauses.

Last Modified Date: March 18, 2011