Food Price Outlook

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food is a component of the all-items CPI. The CPI measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative market basket of consumer goods and services. While the all-items CPI measures the price changes for all consumer goods and services, including food, the CPI for food measures the changes in the retail prices of food items only.<div><br>This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the <a href="https://data.gov">https://data.gov</a> catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources:</div><ul><li><a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook.aspx "> Web page with links to Excel files</a></li></ul><div> For complete information, please visit <a href="https://data.gov">https://data.gov</a>.</div>