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The year-over-year change will likely be a percentage point or less over a given year, but there is a significant difference over time. For taxpayers with raises indexed to primary CPI, this change may eventually result in them paying more tax in a higher bracket despite not feeling significantly more wealthy. As inflation accelerates this effect will become more pronounced, meaning that more taxpayers will begin feeling the bite of higher taxes in addition to paying more for the goods and services they buy.
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Chain-weighted CPI can capture both general changes in spending, as consumer preferences change, and substitution effects, when relative prices change. The adjustments in chain-weighted CPI make it a better measure of the cost of living, but a less accurate measure of inflation. Article Sources. Investopedia requires writers to use primary sources to support their work. These include white papers, government data, original reporting, and interviews with industry experts. We also reference original research from other reputable publishers where appropriate.
Because the traditional CPI is calculated as an arithmetic average of those indexes and the arithmetic average is unbiased , any bias contained in the item-area indexes carries through to the overall CPI. BLS has developed another approach to measuring price increases that avoids both substitution bias and small-sample bias.
Since August , BLS has published an alternative index, the chained CPI-U, which attempts to account for the effects of substitution on changes in the cost of living. The chained CPI-U is also largely free of small-sample bias because of the way in which it is computed. Both the traditional CPI and the chained CPI-U are based on the same item-area indexes, which are calculated using a geometric average. To combine those indexes into an overall estimate of price growth in the United States, however, BLS uses a geometric-average formula for the chained CPI-U, as opposed to an arithmetic average formula for the traditional CPI.
The use of a geometric-average formula to combine the item-area indexes effectively makes the number of elements in the geometric average much larger, which essentially eliminates small-sample bias. The difference has generally been smaller when overall inflation has been lower—perhaps reflecting fewer increases in the relative prices of goods and services for which consumers spend a great deal and less interest by consumers in substituting between goods and services when price increases are mostly smaller.
In addition, the gap between the traditional and the chained CPI-U has generally been smaller when prices for energy have been declining and larger when those prices have been rising rapidly. Although many analysts consider the chained CPI to be a more accurate measure of the cost of living than the traditional CPI, using it for indexing could have disadvantages.
The values of the chained CPI are revised over a period of several years, so affected programs and the tax code would have to be indexed to a preliminary estimate of the chained CPI that is subject to estimation error. Also, the chained CPI may understate growth in the cost of living for some groups, as discussed in another blog post today.
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