{
  "id": "cpi-components",
  "slug": "cpi-components",
  "title": "One date, different consumer-price categories",
  "tag": "INFLATION / COMPONENTS",
  "unit": "Percent change, August 2025–August 2026",
  "kind": "category-rates",
  "metric": "value",
  "measure": "Unadjusted 12-month percent changes in CPI-U expenditure categories",
  "geography": "United States: U.S. city average",
  "observation_type": "Same-window different baskets",
  "coverage": "Twelve months ended August 2026",
  "overview": "The same economic period produced different inflation experiences for gasoline, food, energy and other goods and services.",
  "caution": "Category rates cannot be added to derive headline CPI: baskets overlap and have different expenditure weights. Gasoline is nested within energy; core excludes food and energy.",
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "label",
      "label": "BLS basket"
    },
    {
      "key": "value",
      "label": "12-month CPI change (%)"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "label": "All items (headline)",
      "value": 3.4,
      "source_id": "bls-2026-08"
    },
    {
      "label": "All items less food and energy (core)",
      "value": 2.4,
      "source_id": "bls-2026-08"
    },
    {
      "label": "Food",
      "value": 2.7,
      "source_id": "bls-2026-08"
    },
    {
      "label": "Energy",
      "value": 16.3,
      "source_id": "bls-2026-08"
    },
    {
      "label": "Gasoline (all types)",
      "value": 27.4,
      "source_id": "bls-2026-08"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "bls-2026-08",
      "agency": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "title": "Consumer Price Index, August 2026",
      "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_09112026.htm",
      "published_on": "2026-09-11",
      "checked_on": "2026-10-11",
      "locator": "Table A, Table 1 and Table 4: CPI-U levels, subcategories and selected regions"
    }
  ]
}