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Consumer price index

In Economics, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a statistical measure of a weighted average of prices of a specified set of goods and services purchased by wage earners in urban areas.

The CPI is a fixed quantity price index and cannot reflect the improvement/deprovement of quality. The CPI also ignores the introduction of new products.

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