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Bureau of Labor Statistics Frequently Asked Questions Table of Contents

  1. How is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) used?
  2. Is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) a Cost-of-Living Index?
  3. What goods and services does the Consumer Price Index (CPI) cover?
  4. Which index is the "Official Consumer Price Index (CPI)" reported in the media?
  5. Can the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for individual areas be used to compare living costs among the areas?
  6. Is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) the best measure of inflation?
  7. How do I use the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for escalating contracts?
  8. Do you have breakdowns of the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC) by state?
  9. Does the Covered Employment and Wages (CEW)/ES-202 program provide information on the number of employees in particular companies?
  10. What is a benchmark of payroll survey estimates?
  11. What kind of hours and earnings data are available from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey?
  12. What are the causes of benchmark revisions of payroll survey estimates?
  13. How do strikes affect Current Employment Statistics (CES) estimates?
  14. Can I get a list of the companies in the samples?
  15. How are Producer Price Indexes (PPI) used?
  16. How does the Producer Price Index (PPI) differ from the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
  17. How are labor hours calculated for productivity measures?
  18. What are some uses of Export and Import Price Indexes?
  19. Does the BLS have employment projections for specific occupations?
  20. How are "wages" defined by the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey?
  21. What types of benefit data do the Employee Benefits Survey (EBS) have?
  22. What are the fastest growing jobs?
  23. How are the labor force components (i.e., civilian noninstitutional population, civilian labor force, employed, unemployed, and unemployment rate) defined?
  24. What are "household" and "establishment" data, and how do they differ?
  25. What is seasonal adjustments?

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