Measures of price changes at the producer and wholesale level and across the whole economy, such as the producer price index, the wholesale price index, the GDP deflator and composite misery and index measures built from price data. An indicator belongs here when its cited article describes prices outside the consumer basket or an index of price changes in general. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Producer, Wholesale and Economy-Wide Price Measures, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Wholesale price index (Wikipedia)
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The wholesale price index (WPI) is the price of a representative basket of wholesale goods.
GDP Deflator (Wikipedia)
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In economics, the GDP deflator (implicit price deflator) is a measure of the money price of all new, domestically produced, final goods and services in an economy in a year relative to the real value of them.
Wikipedia: Misery index (economics)
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The misery index is an economic indicator, created by the American economist Arthur Okun.
Wikipedia: Index (economics)
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In economics, statistics, and finance, an index is a number that measures how a group of related data points-like prices, company performance, productivity, or employment-changes over time to track different aspects of economic health from various sources.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Index home page
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The prices included in the PPI are from the first commercial transaction for many products and some services.
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