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Citation, publisher, access, and license
Public source dossierPublic datasetU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumer Price Index, U.S. city average monthly series
Official non-seasonally-adjusted monthly Consumer Price Index series for nine U.S. city average item universes from January 2017 through July 2026, including publisher-declared and unreturned monthly gaps.
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Evidence topology
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0/7 direct domains · 1,239 normalized indicators · 0 markets · 2017-2026Encoded row volume · log scaleExact counts shown
Public sourceConsumer Price Index, U.S. city average monthly seriesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics / 1 active routes / 2017-2026
- Record identitybls-cpi-public-data-2026U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026
- Source classPublic datasetAccessed Aug 13, 2026
- Encoded scope1 active route0 direct / 1,239 indicator rows
- Permitted inferenceTrace + reproduceNo automatic endorsement or comparability
Evidence topology
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Definitions0Not encodedObservations0Not encodedParticipants0Not encodedPolicy records0Not encodedReports0Not encodedIndustries0Not encodedGeographies0Not encodedIndicators1,239normalized indicator observations / normalized route
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Measurement releases
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Official record chronology
Policy records backed by this source
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Industry observatory
NAICS concentration evidence
No NAICS industry rows encoded
This source does not back the Census national industry-concentration tables in the current release. Its other evidence-domain counts remain independently inspectable.
Consumer price observatory
Monthly BLS price context
- Series
- 9
- Monthly slots
- 115
- Panel cells
- 1,035
- Observed
- 1,026
- Explicit gaps
- 9
Consumer Price Index series describe price movement in BLS-defined consumer item universes. They do not measure concentration, market power, margins, pass-through, consumer welfare, product substitutability, legal antitrust markets, or the competitive cause of a price change.
Raw CPI index levels use series-specific reference bases and must not be compared as magnitudes across series. The observatory shows levels in separate panels; its indexed view rebases each selected series to 100 at the first jointly observed month.
Citation custody
The record behind the rows
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index public data, U.S. city average monthly series, accessed August 13 2026.
Official non-seasonally-adjusted monthly Consumer Price Index series for nine U.S. city average item universes from January 2017 through July 2026, including publisher-declared and unreturned monthly gaps.
Canonical source citation
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index public data, U.S. city average monthly series, accessed August 13 2026. Available at https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm. Accessed Aug 13, 2026. Antitrust Radar source record bls-cpi-public-data-2026: https://antitrustradar.org/sources/bls-cpi-public-data-2026
- Publisher
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Access date
- Aug 13, 2026
- License note
- Public federal government dataset
- Archive
- No archive URL recorded
Source-scoped data packet
Reusable public endpoints
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Definitions
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Observations
HHI, market size, status, and methodology
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Participants
Firm shares, rank, aggregate flags, and custody
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Official records
Dated enforcement and policy chronology
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Named edges
Exact organization roles in official records
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Event windows
Bounded pre, event-year, and post HHI context
1,239
Consumer price cells
Monthly BLS index levels, derived changes, and explicit gap states
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Reports
Published observatory work citing this source
Interpretation boundary
Use the source at its encoded scope
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