E 135-166 PRICES AND PRICE INDEXES

Series E 135-166. Consumer Price Indexes (BLS)—All Items, 1800 to 1970, and by Groups, 1913 to 1970
[1967 = 100]

Food Housing

Food a t home
Year All
items All Fruits and Food
foods Cereals vegetables away Total
and Dairy Sugar Bever- from
Total bakery Meat Poultry Fish prod- Eggs and ages home
prod- ucts Fresh Proc- sweets
ucts

135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149
1970 116.3 114.9 113.7 108.9 117.6 108.4 118.0 111.8 125.6 116.3 109.2 115.1 117.4 119.9 118.9
1969 109.8 108.9 108.2 103.3 111.4 109.0 107.2 106.7 126.8 111.1 106.5 109.1 104.6 111.6 110.8
1968 104.2 103.6 103.2 100.4 102.3 103.1 101.6 103.3 107.8 109.4 106.6 103.4 101.9 105.2 104.2
1967 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1966 97.2 99.1 100.3 97.7 102.6 106.7 96.7 95.8 119.6 99.7 100.6 97.0 100.9 95.1 97.2
1966 94.5 94.4 95.5 93.8 93.9 101.2 90.8 90.0 105.0 97.9 98.3 99.0 101.5 90.9 94.9
1964 92.9 92.4 93.2 92.5 87.3 98.2 88.2 89.7 107.6 95.9 101.5 100.7 102.3 88.9 93.8
1963 91.7 91.2 92.2 92.1 88.7 100.4 90.3 88.9 108.6 90.6 99.2 96.0 91.2 87.3 92.7
1962 90.6 89.9 91.0 90.8 90.1 102.0 90.5 89.2 107.0 85.5 94.0 88.4 90.1 85.4 91.7
1961 89.6 89.1 90.4 88.9 88.3 96.5 86.9 89.8 113.2 83.3 96.7 88.4 91.5 83.2 90.9
1960 88.7 88.0 89.6 87.1 87.2 106.9 85.0 88.4 113.2 84.6 92.9 90.1 91.5 81.4 90.2
1959 87.3 87.1 88.8 85.4 88.8 105.2 84.9 86.5 105.1 79.7 96.2 89.7 92.1 79.3 88.6
1958 86.6 88.6 91.0 84.7 92.2 116.4 83.4 85.9 120.0 83.7 92.3 87.8 101.4 77.2 87.7
1957 84.3 84.9 87.2 83.0 82.8 116.8 78.0 84.7 114.1 78.0 86.3 84.0 109.1 74.9 86.2
1956 81.4 82.2 84.4 79.9 74.5 119.8 77.0 82.3 119.8 77.5 88.2 81.6 109.9 72.2 83.6
1955 80.2 81.6 84.1 78.8 77.1 136.7 77.1 80.2 120.5 73.2 85.5 83.5 105.1 70.8 82.3
1954 80.5 82.8 86.8 77.6 83.7 131.3 78.7 80.3 116.6 71.8 84.8 81.8 117.4 70.1 81.7
1953 80.1 83.0 86.2 75.8 84.2 145.4 78.2 82.9 139.4 73.3 85.3 80.1 98.8 68.9 80.8
1952 79.5 84.3 87.8 74.3 90.2 149.2 81.3 84.4 131.6 77.7 83.3 79.3 96.2 78.7
1951 77.8 82.8 72.6 91.0 148.6 83.4 81.0 144.1 66.9 84.6 78.6 95.6 77.2
1950 72.1 74.6 66.5 80.3 141.8 73.1 72.6 118.4 61.6 74.8 75.8 86.7 72.8
1949 71.4 73.5 65.4 76.2 148.1 74.5 73.4 137.1 65.4 77.2 74.3 61.3 70.9
1948 72.1 76.6 65.8 81.0 157.1 74.1 80.5 142.3 63.6 81.0 73.2 56.8 69.8
1947 66.9 70.6 59.8 71.3 141.7 64.3 73.2 136.9 60.3 85.2 75.8 51.8 65.2
1946. 58.5 58.1 48.1 50.1 134.5 56.0 64.9 115.0 57.0 68.6 60.6 60.6
1945 53.9 50.7 41.9 39.2 119.6 51.5 52.6 112.0 56.3 63.0 53.3 59.1
1944 52.7 49.6 41.8 39.1 116.8 49.2 52.5 105.0 53.0 62.5 53.3 58.1
1943 51.8 50.3 41.4 41.3 113.0 48.9 52.9 110.3 53.3 62.3 53.5 56.8
1942 48.8 45.1 40.5 40.7 94.9 38.6 49.3 93.0 39.7 57.2 53.3 56.2
1941 44.1 38.4 37.6 35.3 79.0 29.6 44.0 76.5 31.1 45.8 44.8 53.7
1940 42.0 35.2 37.3 31.4 73.3 26.2 39.8 64.0 29.1 43.2 40.8 52.4
1939 41.6 34.6 36.4 32.1 72.6 23.9 37.7 62.0 28.5 42.5 42.4 52.2
1938 42.2 35.6 38.5 32.5 80.9 24.0 39.2 68.4 27.6 44.4 41.2 52.6
1937 43.0 38.4 39.7 35.3 81.2 23.9 41.4 69.0 32.5 48.6 42.5 51.7
1936 41.6 36.9 38.7 32.8 78.2 23.3 39.9 70.4 31.8 46.0 41.9 50.0
1935 41.1 36.5 39.2 33.4 73.9 23.2 38.3 71.0 29.5 48.4 42.5 49.3

Housing—-Con. Apparel Transportation

Fuel and utilities House- Read-

hold Medical Personal ing and
furnish- House Men's Women'i Foot- care care recre-
Year Gas Fuel ings furnish- Total and and wear Total Private Public ation
Total and oil and and ings boys' girls'
elec- coal opera-
tricity tion

151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165
1970.. 107.6 107.3 110.1 113.4 111.4 116.1 117.1 116.0 117.7 112.7 111.1 128.5 120.6 113.2 113.4
1969.. 103.6 102.8 105.6 109.0 108.1 111.5 112.4 111.7 111.8 107.2 106.5 112.7 113.4 109.3 108.7
1968.. 101.3 100.9 103.1 104.4 103.9 105.4 105.7 105.9 105.3 103.2 103.0 104.6 106.1 104.2 104.7
1967- 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1966— 98.8 99.6 97.0 97.0 98.0 96.1 96.5 95.6 95.3 97.2 97.5 95.2 93.4 97.1 97.5
1965— 98.3 99.4 94.6 95.3 97.1 93.7 94.0 93.8 90.0 95.9 96.3 91.9 89.5 95.2 95.9
1964— 98.4 99.4 92.7 95.0 97.6 92.7 92.8 93.1 88.4 94.3 94.7 90.1 87.3 94.5 96.0
1963— 98.2 99.4 93.2 94.6 97.7 91.9 91.6 92.5 88.0 93.0 93.4 88.5 85.6 93.4 92.8
1962— 97.3 99.4 91.6 93.8 98.1 90.9 90.4 91.8 87.1 92.5 93.0 87.4 83.5 92.2 91.3
1961- 98.1 99.4 91.0 93.7 98.7 90.4 89.9 91.9 85.9 90.6 91.3 84.6 81.4 90.6 89.3
1960- 95.9 98.6 89.2 99.3 89.6 88.9 91.6 85.1 89.6 90.6 81.0 79.1 90.1 87.3
1959- 93.8 94.7 89.8 93.1 99.0 88.2 87.2 91.2 82.2 89.6 91.1 78.3 76.4 88.7 85.3
1958- 91.7 92.4 88.7 92.3 99.0 87.5 87.4 90.8 79.0 86.0 87.4 76.1 73.2 86.9 83.9
1957-. 89.9 89.3 90.3 91.9 99.7 87.3 87.8 90.9 77.8 83.3 84.7 72.7 69.9 84.1 80.7
1956- 87.3 88.4 85.9 89.9 98.1 85.8 86.4 90.4 75.4 78.8 80.1 70.0 67.2 81.1 77.8
1955- 85.1 87.5 82.3 89.9 99.2 84.1 85.0 89.8 71.6 77.4 78.9 67.4 64.8 77.9 76.7
1954- 83.5 85.3 81.2 90.9 101.1 84.5 86.0 90.6 70.8 78.3 80.3 65.5 63.4 76.6 76.9
1953- 83.0 84.2 81.5 91.3 102.9 84.6 86.4 91.4 70.0 79.5 82.4 61.3 61.4 76.3 77.7
1952.. 82.6 78.0 91.1 103.4 85.3 87.1 92.4 70.1 77.3 80.8 57.5 59.3 75.6 76.9
1951- 81.5 76.5 106.0 86.1 86.7 93.6 71.6 72.5 75.8 54.0 56.3 74.7 76.6
1950- 81.2 72.7 95.5 79.0 80.1 86.9 63.3 68.2 72.5 48.9 53.7 68.3 74.4
1949.. 81.0 70.3 94.9 80.1 80.5 89.9 62.3 66.4 72.3 45.2 52.7 68.3 74.9
1948.. 79.1 68.6 98.3 83.3 82.7 95.1 62.8 61.8 68.2 40.7 51.1 68.5 72.2
1947.. 77.1 58.4 92.7 78.2 78.3 89.8 57.5 55.5 61.5 36.0 48.1 66.0 68.7
1946.. 77.4 51.3 80.0 67.5 66.1 77.5 46.0 50.3 54.3 34.4 44.4 59.0 64.5
1945.. 79.6 48.0 73.3 61.5 58.3 72.2 41.0 47.8 51.3 33.5 42.1 55.1 62.4
1944.. 80.3 47.1 68.6 58.5 55.9 68.5 40.0 47.9 51.4 33.5 41.1 53.4 60.0
1943. 80.6 45.2 63.1 54.6 53.4 63.6 38.4 47.9 51.4 33.4 39.9 49.9 54.1
1942. 81.0 43.1 61.4 52.3 50.9 60.9 36.4 48.1 52.3 33.3 38.0 45.2 50.0
1941. 81.4 40.5 54.0 44.8 43.7 52.7 32.3 44.2 45.9 33.1 37.0 41.2 47.7
1940. 82.1 38.2 60.5 42.8 41.6 50.4 31.3 42.7 43.6 33.1 36.8 40.2 46.1
1939. 82.9 37.1 50.9 42.4 40.9 50.0 30.6 43.0 44.2 33.1 36.7 40.3 45.3
1938. 83.0 37.8 52.0 43.0 41.6 50.7 81.0 44.0 45.8 32.9 36.7 40.4 45.2
1937. 83.0 38.1 52.4 43.2 41.8 51.0 31.0 43.7 45.5 32.6 36.6 39.6 43.7
1936. 84.5 37.4 48.4 41.1 39.7 48.6 29.4 43.0 44.2 32.9 36.3 37.4 42.5
1935. 86.2 36.8 47.6 40.8 39.2 48.2 29.0 42.6 43.3 33.2 36.1 36.9 41.8

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 CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES E 135-173

Series E 135-166. Consumer Price Indexes (BLS)—All Items, 1800 to 1970, and by Groups, 1913 to 1970—Con.
[1967 = 100]

Housing
AH Food at Apparel, All All All Ali All
items home, House total items items items items items
Year total Rent furnish- Year Year Year Year Year
ings

135 137 150 155 156 135 135 135 135 135

1934 40.1 34.1 50.7 46.6 40.4 1912.._ 29 1890__. 27 1868.__ 40 1846_._ 27 1823-_ 36
1933 38.8 30.6 54.1 42.4 36.9 1911... 28 1889--_ 27 1867--. 42 1845.__ 28 1822___ 40
1932 40.9 31.5 62.8 42.9 38.2 1888.__ 27 1866 __ 44 1844.__ 28 1821__. 40
1931 45.6 37.8 70.0 49.3 43.2 1910.-- 28 1887--. 27 1843___ 28 1820-.- 42
1909.-- 27 1886-__ 27 1865- - . 46 1842___ 29 1819... 46
1930 50.0 45.9 73.9 54.7 47.5 1908-_- 27 1864__. 47 1841__. 31 1818__. 46
1929 51.3 48.3 76.0 56.2 48.5 1907___ 28 1885.__ 27 1863.__ 37 1817-_- 48
1928 51.3 47.7 77.8 56.8 49.0 1906___ 27 1884-__ 27 1862___ 30 1840-__ 30 1816__. 51
1927 52.0 48.2 79.7 58.2 49.7 1883--_ 28 1861__. 27 1839_-_ 32
1926 53.0 50.0 81.0 59.6 50.8 1905.__ 27 1882--_ 29 1838-__ 32 1815.-- 55
1904___ 27 1881..- 29 I860-. 27 1837 _ 34 1814_ . 63
1925. 52.5 48.4 81.8 61.0 51.6 1903___ 27 1859. . 27 1836--. 33 1813___ 58
1924 51.2 44.7 81.5 62.3 52.6 1902___ 26 1880-_- 29 1858-- 26 1812___ 51
1923 51.1 45.1 78.6 63.4 53.1 1901.__ 25 1879-__ 28 1857-.- 28 1835_-_ 31 1811__ 50
1922 50.2 43.7 76.7 59.0 53.0 1878___ 29 1856-.. 27 1834_-_ 30 1810-_- 47
1921 53.6 46.7 74.5 69.5 65.2 1900.__ 25 1877--_ 32 1833-- 29 1809_ _ 47
1899-_- 25 1876-- . 32 1855-_- 28 1832.__ 30 1808___ 48
1920 60.0 61.5 64.9 82.7 84.6 1898--. 25 1854-_- 27 1831--. 32 1807___ 44
1919 51.8 54.6 55.2 67.4 71.1 1897--- 25 1875--_ 33 1853--_ 25 1806--_ 47
1918. . _ ... 45.1 49.0 51.0 53.5 53.6 1896.-- 25 1874-__ 34 1852 __ 25 1830.-_ 32
1917. 38.4 42.6 50.1 41.6 39.6 1873__- 36 1851__. 25 1829--_ 32 1805--_ 45
1916 32.7 33.1 50.5 35.6 33.0 1895-__ 25 1872--_ 36 1828___ 33 1804--_ 45
1894-.- 26 1871___ 36 1850___ 25 1827__- 34 1803.__ 45
1915 30.4 29.4 49.9 31.9 30.1 1893-__ 27 1849--_ 25 1826- - . 34 1802__. 43
1914 30.1 29.8 49.6 30.5 29.4 1892___ 27 1870-- . 38 1848___ 26 1825.-- 34 1801... 50
1913 29.7 29.2 49.6 29.8 29.2 1891___ 27 1869--_ 40 1847___ 28 1824___ 33 1800.-_ 51

Series E 167-173. Consumer Price Indexes (BLS), for Special Groups: 1935 to 1970
[1967 = 1001

Commodities Services Commodities Services

All items, All All items, All
exclud- items, Excluding food exclud- items, Excluding food
ing excluding ing excluding
food shelter Total Total Exclud- Year food shelter Total Total
Total Non- ing rent Total Non-
durable durable

168 169 170

116.7 114.4 113.5 112.5 113.1 121.6 123.7 1952 77.5 80.8 87.0 88.3 82.4 64.5
110.1 109.0 108.4 108.1 108.8 112.5 113.8 1951 75.7 79.2 85.9 87.5 82.0 61.8
104.4 104.1 103.7 103.7 104.1 105.2 105.7
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 1950. 71.1 73.1 78.8 81.4 76.2 58.7
96.7 97.4 98.2 97.5 97.0 95.8 95.3 1949 70.3 72.6 78.3 81.5 76.3 56.9
1948. 69.6 73.9 80.4 82.7 77.8 54.3
94.5 94.6 95.7 96.2 94.8 92.2 91.5 1947 64.9 68.5 75.0 76.8 72.2 51.1
93.2 93.2 94.6 95.6 93.5 90.2 89.2 1946 59.4 59.0 62.4 68.1 62.9 49.1
92.0 92.1 93.6 94.8 92.7 88.5 87.3
90.8 90.9 92.8 94.1 91.8 86.8 85.5 1945 56.9 53.6 56.3 64.1 58.6 48.2
89.7 89.9 92.0 93.4 91.2 85.2 83.9 1944 55.7 52.2 54.7 61.6 56.6 47.5
1943 53.6 51.3 54.0 58.4 53.8 46.4
88.9 91.5 93.1 90.7 83.5 81.9 1942 52.1 47.7 49.6 56.0 51.6 45.6
87.3 87.6 90.7 92.7 89.3 80.8 79.0 1941 48.7 42.4 43.3 50.4 46.7 44.2
85.7 86.9 90.6 91.5 88.2 78.5 76.4
83.8 84.4 88.6 90.5 87.6 75.6 73.3 1940 47.3 39.9 40.6 48.0 44.7 43.6
81.1 81.7 85.9 87.8 85.3 72.7 70.1 1939 47.2 39.7 40.2 47.7 44.3 43.5
1938. 47.5 40.4 41.0 48.5 45.0 43.4
79.7 80.6 85.1 86.9 83.5 70.9 68.2 1937 47.0 41.6 42.6 48.5 45.3 42.6
79.5 81.0 85.9 87.5 83.5 69.5 66.7 1936 45.4 40.3 41.0 46.5 41.3
79.0 81.0 86.7 88.5 83.1 67.3 64.8
1935 44.9 39.8 40.5 46.0 43.1 40.9

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