Williams, Elliot (contributor) - 2006
decimal place before releasing it, and the published CPI inflation series is calculated
from those rounded index values. While … inflation,
the monthly percent changes in the CPI.
This paper estimates the impact of rounding error on the published CPI … inflation
for both contemporaneous and historical data. Using an unrounded CPI series from
January 1986 to July 2005 as a …