The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 10, March 11, 2007, Article 21

SOURCE FOR HISTORICAL CONSUMER PRICES

A reader asks: "I noticed in the last issue of The E-Sylum there was a
reference to the CPI in one of the articles.  Henk Groenendijk said that
the CPI defines the price structure for 1967 as 100.0.  The writer then
stated that the current CPI was a number in the high five hundreds
(approaching 600.0).

"This is a subject that interests me for some research I'm doing.  I
checked the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics site:
www.bls.gov/cpi/.  Unfortunately, this site appears to only enable
access to statistics back to 1913, not earlier.  I believe Henk
mentioned the CPI for one of the years in the 1860's.  I'd love to
know where that information is obtainable.  If you can help me in
any way, I'd appreciate it."

Henk Groenendijk writes: "Unfortunately, I cannot relocate the site
I used for the calculation. However, I did find a site with much more
data about price levels which goes back to the 1600s:

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