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31Consumer Price Index — consumer price in·dex n: an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage earner purchases of goods and services in some base period – called also cost of living index; Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. Consumer …
32Digital Opportunity Index — The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) is an index published by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union based on internationally agreed ICT indicators. This makes it a valuable tool for benchmarking the most important indicators for …
33Monster Employment Index — An index created by information collected from job postings on more than 1,500 job search websites (including Monster.com in the U.S.). The Monster Employment Index tracks job availability to help provide insight on the strength of the economy.… …
34Dual Index Mortgage — A type of mortgage where the interest rate paid on the outstanding balance is indexed to a interest rate benchmark plus a margin, and the actual total mortgage payments are linked to a benchmark of wages and salaries for workers in a given… …
35Retail Prices Index — (RPI) The main domestic measure of inflation in the UK, published by the Office for National Statistics. It measures the average change from month to month in the prices of goods and services purchased by most households in the UK. The government …
36consumer price index — noun Date: 1948 an index measuring the change in the cost of typical wage earner purchases of goods and services expressed as a percentage of the cost of these same goods and services in some base period called also cost of living index …
37cost-of-liv|ing index — «KST uhv LIHV ihng, KOST », a comparative rating of the cost of living, especially that made annually by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics: »The cost of living index…reflects price changes for goods and services families of wage… …
38Employment Cost Index - ECI — A quarterly report from the U.S. Department of Labor that measures the growth of employee compensation (wages and benefits). The index is based on a survey of employer payrolls in the final month of each quarter. The ECI tracks movement in the… …
39consumer price index (CPI) — Measure of living costs based on changes in retail prices. Consumer price indexes are widely used to measure changes in the cost of maintaining a given standard of living. The goods and services commonly purchased by the population covered are… …
40Consumer Price Index - CPI — A measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food and medical care. The CPI is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the predetermined basket of goods and …
