price index
noun[C]
ukusECONOMICS
ameasurementof thechangesin thepriceofgoodsandservicesover aperiodoftime:
ThelatestUK house-priceindexwasreleasedonTuesday.
See also
consumer price index
cost of living index
retail price index
Examplesofprice index
price index
Using the consumerpriceindex, this price was equivalent to $7,020 in 2008 dollars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In effect thepriceindexof 100 for the base year is a numraire forprice-indexvalues in other years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Three years later, it developed a 90 component compositepriceindexthat was computed on a daily basis; that was expanded over the years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is necessary to compare the cost of baskets of goods and services using apriceindex.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thepriceindexfor some period is usually normalized to be 1 or 100, and that period is called base period.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Producerpriceindexmeasures the pressure being put on producers by the costs of their raw materials.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the purpose of apriceindex, which is the combined price of a basket of many goods and services.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The three economists developed an internationalpriceindexfor the valuation of each countrys quantities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Escalation is usually calculated by examining the changes inpriceindexmeasures for a good or service.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For apriceindex, its value in the base year is usually normalized to a value of 100.
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