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cost-of-living index

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cost-of-living index
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Noun1.cost-of-living index - an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
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


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Long Beach-Santa Ana metro area - had a cost-of-living index that's 48 percent above the national average, a median household income ($56,680) that's slightly better than average, and an unemployment rate (10.
The CUF used a cost-of-living index created by comparing the costs of housing and items such as groceries to the national average to show that Manhattan is far and away the most expensive city in the United States, with a cost-of-living index of 224.
Recently, Triplett (2001, F331) had strongly contended that "the theory of the cost-of-living index does provide the underlying conceptual rationale for constructing a practical CPI.
 
 
 
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