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The Consumer Price Index (CPI)

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in the price paid by urban consumers for a fixed market basket of goods and services. The CPI is calculated monthly for two population groups, the CPI-W consisting of urban households whose primary source of income is derived from the employment of wage earners and clerical workers, and the CPI-U consisting of all urban households — including wage earners, clerical, professional, managerial and technical workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, retirees and others not in the labor force.

JULY 2008

UNITED STATES

Index % changes from

	*May ’08*	*April '08*	*May ’07*
(U)*	216.632	0.8	4.2
(W)**	212.788	1.0	4.5

LOS ANGELES

Index % changes from

	*May ’08*	*April '08*	*May ’07*
(U)*	226.651	0.9	3.7
(W)**	219.702	0.8	4.1

SAN DIEGO

	*Annual '07*	*2nd Half '07*
(U)*	231.810	234.772
(W)**	217.062	219.601

Percentage change from preceding periods

	*Annual '07*	*2nd Half '07*
(U)*	2.3%	1.3%
(W)**	2.4%	1.2%