cost-of-living index

See consumer price index.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

cost-of-living index

A numerical scale representing the costs necessary to maintain a minimal standard of living.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cost-of-living index - an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer

consumer price index, CPI

price index, price level - an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

* Edinburg, Texas, has the lowest cost-of-living index for young people, 76.02; Stanford, Calif., the highest, 359.79.

Choosing the Best College Cities in the U.S

(Shutterstock) DUBAI: UAE's Dubai topped the list of most expensive Arab cities in the world with a cost-of-living index of 72.58, according to the 2018 Cost of Living index.

Dubai, Doha and Beirut top list of most expensive Arab cities, but low globally

We did not measure up very well for cost-of-living index (33rd), or the availability of a basket of certain goods and services, scoring 73.40 out of 100, where 100 refers to what is available in New York City.

Squandering our demographic sweet spot

ranks American college towns according to cost-of-living index scores.

10 affordable college towns

Revitalizing the cost-of-living index in the New Deal era

The first hundred years of the Consumer Price Index: a methodological and political history

The cost-of-living index in the Arab world's largest economy stood at 143.6 points in October, up 0.7% from 142.6 in September.

Saudi Arabia's cost of living index rises

The Trustees of the scheme are selecting the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a suitable cost-of-living index for increases to pensions in payment and the revaluation of deferred benefits.

QinetiQ reaches agreement on reducing pension deficit

Our cost-of-living index, compiled with industry journal The Grocer, shows 10 out of 25 everyday items fell in price and four stayed the same compared with a year ago.

CARROT CRUNCH; Glut helps cut grocery costs

The contributors evaluate the accuracy of the Cost-of-Living Index (COLI), a Cost-of Goods Index, and a variety of other methodological frameworks as the bases for thinking about consumer prices.

Price Index Concepts and Measurement

Triplett, Jack E., 2001, "Should Cost-of-Living Index Provide the Conceptual Framework for a Consumer Price Index?" The Economic Journal, 111, F311-F334.

Study on Taiwan consumers' cost of living: an application of the additive Tornqvist price index formula