Consumer Price Index


Table 2. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Boston-Brockton-Nashua, MA-NH-ME-CT, by expenditure category (1982-1984=100, unless otherwise noted)
Expenditure category Percent change from previous year
November 2003 November 2004 November 2005 November 2006 November 2007 Nov. 2007 Index

All items

 3.0 2.5 3.3 2.1 3.4 230.689

Food and beverages

 2.9 3.7 1.0 3.5 4.1 215.940

Food

 3.2 3.8 1.1 3.4 4.0 216.030

Food at home

 4.6 4.2 1.3 3.0 3.8 209.144

Food away from home

 1.9 3.0 0.7 3.9 4.3 228.366

Alcoholic beverages

 -0.6 3.4 -0.7 5.2 5.0 216.962

Housing

 3.8 1.7 4.3 2.3 1.3 234.374

Shelter

 3.4 0.3 2.1 2.3 1.2 272.049

Rent of primary residence1

 2.6 2.1 2.1 2.4 1.6 268.938

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence1 2

 4.4 1.4 1.4 2.5 1.2 287.493

Fuel and utilities

 12.8 15.8 23.7 4.7 3.4 241.888

Household energy

 13.1 17.1 25.9 4.5 3.0 212.449

Gas (piped) and electricity1

 12.3 9.1 27.5 6.8 -6.8 214.373

Electricity1

 9.2 7 21.1 16.1 -5.4 198.235

Utility (piped) gas service1

 17.4 12.4 36.6 -6.8 -9.2 236.100

Household furnishings and operations

 -0.2 0.5 3.9 -0.1 -1.6 124.590

Apparel

 3.2 -9.2 -3.8 4.6 3.4 139.087

Transportation

 1.6 7.0 4.0 -2.3 7.9 180.352

Private transportation

 1.6 7.2 4.1 -2.5 8.4 180.380

Motor fuel

 10.4 24.3 12.7 -5.7 39.6 257.076

Gasoline, all types

 10.4 24.4 12.7 -5.8 39.7 253.577

Gasoline, unleaded regular3

 10.4 24.7 12.6 -6.2 41.0 252.596

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade3 4

 9.9 23.2 12.9 -5.0 37.5 253.640

Gasoline, unleaded premium3

 10.0 23.9 12.6 -4.0 33.9 246.934

Medical care

 3.7 4.5 5.5 3.4 5.9 489.806

Recreation5

 2.5 -1.6 3.1 3.3 1.0 117.052

Education and communication5

 0.7 5.2 1.6 0.9 7.8 129.307

Other goods and services

 1.5 3.7 1.4 4.8 1.1 349.451

1This index series was calculated using a Laspeyres estimator. All other item stratum index series converted to a geometric means estimator in January 1999.

2 Index is on a November 1982=100 base.

3 Special index based on a substantially smaller sample.

4 Indexes on a December 1993=100 base.

5 Indexes on a December 1997=100 base.

N/A - Data not available.

 

Last Modified Date: January 15, 2008