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Consumer Price Index, New York-Northern New Jersey –
December 2015
Area prices down 0.4 percent over the month and up 0.7 percent over the year

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Prices in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for
All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), fell 0.4 percent after a 0.2-percent decline in November, the U.S. Bureau of

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Labor Statistics reported today. Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli attributed the decrease partly to

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lower prices for energy. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month
changes may reflect the impact of seasonal influences.)

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Over the year, the CPI-U was up 0.7 percent. (See table A.) The December increase was the largest since

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November 2014.(See chart 1.) The index for all items less food and energy increased 2.1 percent. (See

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table 1.) Higher prices for shelter drove the 12-month change in both indexes.

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Food
The food index inched down 0.1 percent in December after a 0.2-percent decline in November. Lower prices for uncooked ground beef, among
other items, contributed to a 0.2-percent decrease in prices for food at home. Prices for food away from home were unchanged.

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Over the year, the food index increased 0.8 percent. At-home food prices inched down 0.1 percent, while away-from-home food prices rose 2.1
percent.

Energy
The energy index fell 3.5 percent over the month, due to widespread price decreases including natural gas (-6.7 percent), gasoline (-3.1 percent),
electricity (-2.0 percent), and fuel oil.
For the year ended in December 2015, the energy index fell 16.0 percent, reflecting a 22.7-percent drop in gasoline prices. The household energy
index fell 11.1 percent, due to lower prices for natural gas (-12.0 percent), electricity (-6.4 percent), and fuel oil.

All items less food and energy
The index for all items less food and energy edged down 0.2 percent for the second consecutive month due in part to lower prices for apparel (-1.2
percent), medical care (-0.6 percent), and lodging away from home. Offsetting the decrease in prices for lodging away from home, residential rent
and owners’ equivalent rent rose 0.3 and 0.2 percent, respectively; as a result, shelter prices were unchanged.
From December 2014 to December 2015, the index for all items less food and energy advanced 2.1 percent. Shelter prices rose 3.1 percent,
reflecting higher prices for residential rent and owners’ equivalent rent, which rose 3.8 and 3.0 percent, respectively. Other categories with higher
prices included apparel (4.5 percent), other goods and services (2.4 percent), and education and communication (1.9 percent).

Table A. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island CPI-U 1-month and 12-month percent changes (not seasonally adjusted)
2010
Month

1-month

2011

12-month

1-month

2012

12-month

1-month

2013

12-month

1-month

2014

12-month

1-month

2015

12-month

1-month

12-month

January

0.2

2.4

0.3

1.5

0.4

2.8

0.5

2.2

0.9

1.9

0.1

February

0.0

1.8

0.5

2.1

0.4

2.6

0.6

2.4

-0.2

1.1

0.3

-0.5
0.1

March

0.5

2.1

0.7

2.3

0.6

2.6

0.1

1.9

0.4

1.3

0.2

-0.1

April

0.2

2.1

0.4

2.5

0.2

2.4

-0.2

1.4

0.0

1.6

0.1

0.0

May

0.2

2.2

0.6

2.9

0.1

1.8

0.1

1.4

0.5

1.9

0.4

-0.1

June

-0.1

1.5

0.2

3.2

-0.1

1.6

0.3

1.8

0.0

1.7

0.2

0.1

July

0.1

1.5

0.3

3.3

-0.2

1.1

0.2

2.1

0.1

1.6

-0.1

-0.1

August

0.2

1.4

0.4

3.5

0.6

1.4

0.1

1.7

-0.2

1.3

0.1

0.1

September

0.0

1.2

0.2

3.8

0.4

1.6

0.3

1.6

0.0

1.0

0.2

0.3

October

0.2

1.5

-0.2

3.3

-0.1

1.7

-0.6

1.1

-0.2

1.3

-0.1

0.4

November

0.0

1.3

-0.3

3.0

0.0

2.0

0.1

1.2

-0.4

0.8

-0.2

0.6

December

0.0

1.4

-0.4

2.7

-0.3

2.1

0.0

1.5

-0.5

0.3

-0.4

0.7

CPI-W
In December, the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) was 254.441, down 0.4 percent over the month. The
CPI-W rose 0.5 percent over the year.

The January 2016 Consumer Price Index for New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island is scheduled to be released Friday,
February 19, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. (ET).

Technical Note
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes CPIs for two population groups: (1) a CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) which covers approximately 89
percent of the total population and (2) a CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) which covers approximately 28 percent of the
total population. The CPI-U includes, in addition to wage earners and clerical workers, groups such as professional, managerial, and technical
workers, the self-employed, short-term workers, the unemployed, and retirees and others not in the labor force.
The CPI is based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, and fuels, transportation fares, charges for doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, and the other
goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living. Each month, prices are collected in 87 urban areas across the country from about 6,000
housing units and approximately 24,000 retail establishments--department stores, supermarkets, hospitals, filling stations, and other types of
stores and service establishments. All taxes directly associated with the purchase and use of items are included in the index.
The index measures price changes from a designated reference date (1982-84) that equals 100.0. An increase of 16.5 percent, for example, is
shown as 116.5. This change can also be expressed in dollars as follows: the price of a base period "market basket" of goods and services in the
CPI has risen from $10 in 1982-84 to $11.65. For further details see the CPI home page on the Internet at www.bls.gov/cpi and the BLS Handbook
of Methods, Chapter 17, The Consumer Price Index, available on the Internet at www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch17.pdf.
In calculating the index, price changes for the various items in each location are averaged together with weights that represent their importance in
the spending of the appropriate population group. Local data are then combined to obtain a U.S. city average. Because the sample size of a local
area is smaller, the local area index is subject to substantially more sampling and other measurement error than the national index. In addition,
local indexes are not adjusted for seasonal influences. As a result, local area indexes show greater volatility than the national index, although their

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long-term trends are quite similar. NOTE: Area indexes do not measure differences in the level of prices between cities; they only measure the
average change in prices for each area since the base period.
The New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Conn.-Pa. consolidated area covered in this release is comprised of Bronx, Dutchess,
Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties in New York State; Bergen, Essex,
Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren Counties in New Jersey; Fairfield
County and parts of Litchfield, Middlesex, and New Haven Counties in Connecticut; and Pike County in Pennsylvania.
Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: [phone]; Federal Relay
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Table 1. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): Indexes and percent changes for selected periods, New
York-Northern N.J.-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA (1982-84=100 unless otherwise noted)(not seasonally adjusted)
Indexes
Oct.
2015

Item and Group

Nov.
2015

Percent change fromDec.
2015

Dec.
2014

Oct.
2015

Nov.
2015

Expenditure category
All items

261.515

261.009

259.941

All items (1967=100)

756.003

754.540

751.453

Food and beverages

257.485

257.088

257.468

257.038

Food at home

255.938

Food away from home

Housing

-0.4

256.782

0.9

-0.3

-0.1

256.735

0.8

-0.3

-0.1

254.510

253.938

-0.1

-0.8

-0.2

267.327

267.390

2.1

0.4

0.0

253.265

Alcoholic beverages

-0.6

266.390

Food

0.7

253.392

253.029

1.6

-0.1

-0.1

280.808

280.746

280.056

1.6

-0.3

-0.2

353.807

353.678

353.825

3.1

0.0

0.0

364.511

365.524

366.776

3.8

0.6

0.3

359.793

360.154

360.779

3.0

0.3

0.2

359.380

359.730

360.339

3.0

0.3

0.2

177.376

177.913

172.253

-9.3

-2.9

-3.2

168.873

169.516

163.172

-11.1

-3.4

-3.7

162.600

163.433

158.123

-7.9

-2.8

-3.2

174.991

175.602

172.137

-6.4

-1.6

-2.0

132.664

133.930

124.975

-12.0

-5.8

-6.7

113.679

113.377

113.360

-1.3

-0.3

0.0

Apparel

132.622

127.008

125.502

4.5

-5.4

-1.2

Transportation

209.410

209.745

206.918

-4.5

-1.2

-1.3

194.577

194.066

192.802

-5.5

-0.9

-0.7

175.975

174.566

169.153

-22.8

-3.9

-3.1

Gasoline (all types)

175.165

173.767

168.382

-22.7

-3.9

-3.1

Gasoline, unleaded regular (3)

172.554

171.284

165.856

-23.5

-3.9

-3.2

Shelter
Rent of primary residence

(1)

Owners' equivalent rent of residences (1)

(2)

Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence
Fuels and utilities
Household energy
Energy services (1)
Electricity

(1)

Utility (piped) gas service

(1)

Household furnishings and operations

Private transportation
Motor fuel

(1) (2)

Gasoline, unleaded midgrade

(3) (4)

191.207

188.849

183.124

-20.2

-4.2

-3.0

Gasoline, unleaded premium

(3)

194.610

192.346

187.281

-18.1

-3.8

-2.6

Medical care

452.809

448.440

445.724

0.7

-1.6

-0.6

Recreation (5)

119.023

118.727

118.415

0.0

-0.5

-0.3

Education and communication (5)

142.863

143.590

143.473

1.9

0.4

-0.1

Other goods and services

406.409

408.579

407.622

2.4

0.3

-0.2

261.515

261.009

259.941

0.7

-0.6

-0.4

187.444

185.890

184.499

-2.1

-1.6

-0.7

144.375

142.342

140.499

-4.6

-2.7

-1.3

179.477

176.158

173.015

-6.2

-3.6

-1.8

98.710

98.145

97.775

-1.3

-0.9

-0.4

Commodity and service group
All items
Commodities
Commodities less food and beverages
Nondurables less food and beverages
Durables

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Indexes
Oct.
2015

Item and Group
Services

Nov.
2015

Percent change fromDec.
2015

Dec.
2014

324.499

324.813

323.982

All items less medical care

253.196

252.840

All items less shelter

225.062

224.390

Commodities less food

148.540

Nondurables

Oct.
2015

Nov.
2015

2.0

-0.2

-0.3

251.839

0.7

-0.5

-0.4

222.794

-0.8

-1.0

-0.7

146.556

144.744

-4.3

-2.6

-1.2

219.980

218.027

216.210

-2.3

-1.7

-0.8

Nondurables less food

184.023

180.878

177.874

-5.7

-3.3

-1.7

Services less rent of shelter (2)

303.266

304.120

302.096

0.6

-0.4

-0.7

Services less medical care services

314.275

314.827

314.042

2.1

-0.1

-0.2

Energy

173.933

173.801

167.724

-16.0

-3.6

-3.5

All items less energy

271.795

271.249

270.652

1.9

-0.4

-0.2

276.144

275.574

274.920

2.1

-0.4

-0.2

Special aggregate indexes

All items less food and energy

Footnotes
(1) This index series was calculated using a Laspeyres estimator. All other item stratum index series were calculated using a geometric means estimator.
(2) Index is on a December 1982=100 base.
(3) Special index based on a substantially smaller sample.
(4) Indexes on a December 1993=100 base.
(5) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base.
Note: Index applies to a month as a whole, not to any specific date.
The New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA consolidated area comprises the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau, Suffolk,
Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, and Orange Counties in New York State; Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Middlesex,
Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren Counties in New Jersey; Fairfield County and parts of Litchfield, New Haven, and Middlesex
Counties in Connecticut; and Pike County in Pennsylvania.

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