Urban Consumers Universe

Definition

Urban Consumers Universe. A statistical universe for consumer expenditure surveys consisting of people within a household that make joint expenditure decisions

In the United States, the CPI-U population, which covers about 88 percent of the U.S. population, covers households in all areas of the United States except people living in rural nonmetropolitan areas, in farm households, on military installations, in religious communities, and in institutions such as prisons and mental hospitals.

See Also

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

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