{
  "name": "cpi-us",
  "title": "US Consumer Price Index and Inflation (CPI)",
  "description": "Monthly US Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), series CUUR0000SA0, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Covers January 1913 to present. Values are U.S. city averages for all items, base period 1982–84=100. Includes a derived month-on-month inflation rate.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "US Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "path": "https://www.bls.gov/cpi/",
      "title": "US Bureau of Labor Statistics"
    }
  ],
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "ODC-PDDL-1.0",
      "path": "http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/",
      "title": "Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0"
    }
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "Indicator"
  ],
  "resources": [
    {
      "path": "data/cpiai.csv",
      "format": "csv",
      "mimetype": "text/csv",
      "description": "Monthly CPI-U index values and derived month-on-month inflation rates for the US city average (all items), from January 1913 to the most recent available month. The first row (1913-01-01) has an empty Inflation value because percent-change calculation requires a prior month.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "BLS Public API v2",
          "path": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/",
          "title": "BLS Public API v2"
        }
      ],
      "schema": {
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "Date",
            "description": "Date of the observation in YYYY-MM-DD format, always the first day of the month.",
            "type": "date",
            "format": "default"
          },
          {
            "name": "Index",
            "description": "Monthly Consumer Price Index. Values are U.S. city averages for all items and 1982-84=100.",
            "type": "number"
          },
          {
            "name": "Inflation",
            "description": "Monthly Consumer Price Inflation. Values are for U.S. city averages for all items.",
            "type": "number"
          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "cpiai"
    }
  ],
  "views": [
    {
      "name": "graph",
      "title": "Monthly Consumer Price Inflation",
      "specType": "simple",
      "resources": [
        "cpiai"
      ],
      "spec": {
        "type": "column",
        "group": "Date",
        "series": [
          "Inflation"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "graph",
      "title": "Monthly Consumer Price Index",
      "specType": "simple",
      "resources": [
        "cpiai"
      ],
      "spec": {
        "type": "line",
        "group": "Date",
        "series": [
          "Index"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "collection": "inflation"
}