GENERAL INFORMATION- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NEWSLETTER
The American Samoa Consumer Price Index (CPI) is designed to measure changes in prices of commodities and services normally purchased by the consuming community. The American Samoa CPI (like the U.S. CPI) is based on the concept of representative "market basket," a sample of goods and services that the consumer purchases. The CPI was first developed during the early part of 1974. The selection of weight distribution was based on "General Statement of Articles of Import of Merchandise into American Samoa from July 1970 - June 1971". The weight distributions was later updated using household expenditure patterns derived from a house hold income and expenditure survey conducted by EDPO in 1982.
CPI 2007 newsletter releases
- 2nd quarter CPI newsletter 2007 (501kb file size)- New Release
- 1st quarter CPI newsletter 2007 (301kb file size)
CPI 2006 newsletter releases
- 4th quarter CPI newsletter 2006 (85kb file size)
- 3rd quarter CPI newsletter 2006 (85kb file size)
- 2nd quarter CPI newsletter 2006 (85kb file size)
- 1st quarter CPI newsletter 2006 (259kb file size)