At What Price? : Conceptualizing and Measuring Cost-of-Living and Price Indexes

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Foundations for Price and Cost-of-Living Indexes -- 3 Index Domain -- 4 Evolving Market Baskets: Adjusting Indexes to Account for Quality Change -- 5 New Goods and New Outlets -- 6 The Special Case of Medical Services -- 7 Index Design and Index Purpose -- 8 Whose Index? Aggregating Across Households -- 9 Data Collection for CPI Construction -- Appendix Statistical Definition and Estimation of Price Indexes -- References -- Glossary -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- Index.