|
|
Definition of Cost-of-living index
1. Noun. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cost-of-living Index
Literary usage of Cost-of-living index
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by American Economic Association (1919)
"In fact agents of my Bureau have already collected the prices necessary for the
computation of the refined cost-of-living index number for Washington and ..."
2. Final Report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Cpi by William V. Roth, Jr. (1998)
"The Consumer Price Index and a Cost of Living Index: Measurement Issues A cost
of living index is a comparison of the minimum expenditure required to ..."
3. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997: The National Data Book by United States Department Of Commerce, United States Government Printing Office (1879)
"Cost of Living Index—Selected Metropolitan Areas: Third Quarter 1996 [Measures
relative price levels for consumer goods and services In participating areas ..."
4. Capital (1888)
"Middle Class Cost of Living Index Number for Calcutta. Prices in August 1939=100
Compiled and constructed by the Statistical Department of "Capital". ..."
5. Russia Today by Carl Kelsey, Thomas Warner Mitchell, Clyde Lyndon King (1922)
"The cost of living index is weighted according to the importance of the various
items in the budget. If the wage is continually raised or lowered only in ..."
6. The Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1910-1922 by Leo Wolman, Paul Wander, H. K. Herwitz, Eleanor Mack, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Chicago Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Research Dept (1922)
"... at the same time directed attention to the difficulties inherent in changing
wages whenever there is only a slight change in the cost of living index. ..."
7. Bigeometric Calculus: A System With a Scale-free Derivative by Michael Grossman (1983)
"At the beginning of, the wage-rate (in dollars per hour) at a certain company
was wn and the cost-of-living index for the United States was CQ. ..."
Other Resources:
