Prices & Inflation

• GDP Price Index

  Measures changes in prices paid for goods and services produced in the United States

• GDP Price Deflator

  A price measure very similar to the GDP price index

• Gross Domestic Purchases Price Index

  BEA’s featured measure of price changes in the U.S. economy overall

• Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index

  Measures inflation in the prices paid by people living in the United States

• Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, Excluding Food and Energy

  The core PCE price index excludes two volatile categories to reveal underlying inflation

• Regional Price Parities by State and Metro Area

  Measure price levels that can be compared across states or metro areas

• Health Care

  Measures spending to treat diseases and provides price indexes of treatments