PRODUCER PRICES OF KEY TRANSPORTATION INPUTS
Key Producer Price Indices for Transportation (monthly data, not seasonally
adjusted)
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Producer Price Indices: All Commodities (monthly data, not seasonally
adjusted)
Producer prices are those charged for the output of firms in a particular
industry, or by all firms, regardless of industrial classification, for
a particular commodity. These prices exclude markups at later stages of
processing and the retail level. Producer prices reflect prices charged
to anyone purchasing directly from the firm, including consumers, when
the firm also serves as a retailer.
Changes in producer prices for transportation inputs suggest the direction
of future costs for providing transportation services. Motor vehicle prices
are strongly seasonal, declining as the model year culminates each September.
| Petroleum products |
175.4 |
139.9 |
| Petroleum products percent change from same month previous year |
15.53 |
-20.26 |
| Crude Petroleum |
151.5 |
152.6 |
| Crude Petroleum percent change from same month previous year |
-2.39 |
0.77 |
| All commodities |
118.3 |
113.3 |
| All commodities percent change from same month previous year |
3.95 |
-4.24 |
| Transportation equipment |
111.6 |
111.2 |
| Transportation equipment percent change from same month previous year |
0.91 |
-0.28 |
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period
in the previous year to account for seasonality.
The base period of the original index is 1982. January 1992 is set to
be the new reference point (=100) by dividing the values of the original
index by the value of January 1992 in the original index. It is important
to point out that this process changes only the reference point, and not
the base period of the index because the weight structure of the index
did not change.
Data from February 2002 to May 2002 are preliminary. A more complete
description of producer prices is given in Chapter 14 of the BLS Handbook
of Methods, available at: http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homch14_e.htm.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; June 13,
2002; available at: http://www.bls.gov/ppi/.
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