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Canada/Nova Scotia Business Service Centre
Your Gateway to Business Information
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Title
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Guide to the Consumer Price Index
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Table of Contents- What is the CPI?
- Misconceptions About the CPI
- How the CPI Relates to You
- The Goods and Services Contained in the CPI Basket
- The Relative Importance of Commodities in the CPI Basket
- Updating the CPI Basket
- Collecting Prices
- Dealing with Quality Change
- Calculating Indexes
- The CPI Time Base
- Calculating Percentage Changes
- Using the CPI to Adjust Payments
- Using the CPI to Compare Dollar Values Over Time
- CPI and Other Related Publications
- Glossary of Terms
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WebSite
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This document is not available on the web
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Date de publication
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December 1996
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Format
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Book
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Pagination
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17 p.
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Department/Agency
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Statistics Canada - SC
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Keywords
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Consumers, Statistics
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Library Locations
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Halifax
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