Consumer Price Index: Update of Boskin Commission's Estimate of Bias

[摘要] A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index's (CPI) updated estimate of CPI bias, focusing on the: (1) methodological changes the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made to the CPI since December 1996, when the Advisory Commission (also referred to as the Boskin Commission) issued its final report; and (2) opinions of the five former Boskin Commission members on how much of the bias in the CPI that the Commission estimated in its December 1996 report remains after recent methodological changes to the CPI."

[发布日期] 2000-02-01 [发布机构] United States. General Accounting Office.

[关键词] Government accountability -- United States.;business regulation and consumer protection;budget and spending;auditing and financial management;employment