The statistic depicts the percentage change in expenditure for communication in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) from 2003 to 2010. The percentage change in 2003 was -3.9 percent.
Percentage change in communication expenditure in the U.S. from 2003 to 2010
(based on the CPI-U)
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes CPIs for two population groups: (1) The CPI for Urban Wage
Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which covers households of wage earners and clerical workers that comprise approximately 32 percent of the total population and (2) the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the Chained CPI for All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U), which cover approximately 87 percent of the total population and include, in addition to wage earner and clerical worker households, groups such as professional, managerial, and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force. Index on a December 1997=100 base.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics. (May 15, 2011). Percentage change in communication expenditure in the U.S. from 2003 to 2010 (based on the CPI-U) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/191466/percentage-change-in-the-cpi-u-for-communication-expenditure-since-2003/
Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Percentage change in communication expenditure in the U.S. from 2003 to 2010 (based on the CPI-U)." Chart. May 15, 2011. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191466/percentage-change-in-the-cpi-u-for-communication-expenditure-since-2003/
Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2011). Percentage change in communication expenditure in the U.S. from 2003 to 2010 (based on the CPI-U). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191466/percentage-change-in-the-cpi-u-for-communication-expenditure-since-2003/
Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Percentage Change in Communication Expenditure in The U.S. from 2003 to 2010 (Based on The Cpi-u)." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 May 2011, https://www.statista.com/statistics/191466/percentage-change-in-the-cpi-u-for-communication-expenditure-since-2003/
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Percentage change in communication expenditure in the U.S. from 2003 to 2010 (based on the CPI-U) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/191466/percentage-change-in-the-cpi-u-for-communication-expenditure-since-2003/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Percentage change in communication expenditure in the U.S. from 2003 to 2010 (based on the CPI-U) [Graph], Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 15, 2011. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191466/percentage-change-in-the-cpi-u-for-communication-expenditure-since-2003/
