Table 3. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U. S. city average, special aggregate indexes

Table 3. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U): U.S. city average, special aggregate indexes, May 2022 [1982-84=100, unless otherwise noted]
Special aggregate indexes	Relative importance Apr. 2022	Unadjusted indexes			Unadjusted percent change		Seasonally adjusted percent change
Special aggregate indexes	Relative importance Apr. 2022	May 2021	Apr. 2022	May 2022	May 2021- May 2022	Apr. 2022- May 2022	Feb. 2022- Mar. 2022	Mar. 2022- Apr. 2022	Apr. 2022- May 2022

All items less food	86.579	268.394	287.595	290.760	8.3	1.1	1.3	0.2	0.9
All items less shelter	67.563	247.484	268.974	272.550	10.1	1.3	1.6	0.2	1.1
All items less food and shelter	54.142	240.537	261.255	264.868	10.1	1.4	1.7	0.1	1.1
All items less food, shelter, and energy	45.887	244.439	258.776	260.146	6.4	0.5	0.2	0.6	0.6
All items less food, shelter, energy, and used cars and trucks	41.895	247.125	260.020	261.361	5.8	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.5
All items less medical care	91.638	256.971	276.967	280.207	9.0	1.2	1.3	0.3	1.0
All items less energy	91.745	274.891	291.199	293.092	6.6	0.7	0.4	0.6	0.7
Commodities	39.686	197.117	219.647	223.076	13.2	1.6	2.1	-0.3	1.3
Commodities less food, energy, and used cars and trucks	17.411	148.545	158.714	159.204	7.2	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4
Commodities less food	26.264	162.903	183.754	187.042	14.8	1.8	2.7	-0.9	1.4
Commodities less food and beverages	25.388	159.470	180.477	183.797	15.3	1.8	2.8	-0.9	1.4
Services	60.314	340.052	356.710	359.566	5.7	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8
Services less rent of shelter(1)	28.246	358.568	376.389	380.099	6.0	1.0	0.9	1.1	0.9
Services less medical care services	53.445	322.545	338.884	341.776	6.0	0.9	0.7	0.8	0.8
Durables	12.779	115.051	127.622	128.122	11.4	0.4	-0.9	0.1	0.1
Nondurables	26.906	237.991	266.284	271.921	14.3	2.1	3.2	-0.2	1.9
Nondurables less food	13.485	207.498	238.601	246.034	18.6	3.1	6.0	-1.5	2.3
Nondurables less food and beverages	12.609	204.141	236.569	244.396	19.7	3.3	6.4	-1.6	2.4
Nondurables less food, beverages, and apparel	10.120	260.377	309.706	322.565	23.9	4.2	8.5	-1.9	2.7
Nondurables less food and apparel	10.997	259.205	304.652	316.375	22.1	3.8	8.2	-1.6	2.7
Housing	41.954	278.648	295.259	297.868	6.9	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.8
Education and communication(2)	6.150	142.002	143.212	143.108	0.8	-0.1	-0.2	-0.2	-0.1
Education(2)	2.589	272.544	278.647	279.356	2.5	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3
Communication(2)	3.561	75.721	75.576	75.341	-0.5	-0.3	-0.5	-0.4	-0.3
Information and information processing(2)	3.478	71.508	71.284	71.053	-0.6	-0.3	-0.5	-0.5	-0.3
Information technology, hardware and services(3)	1.651	7.357	7.297	7.250	-1.5	-0.6	-0.4	-1.2	-0.6
Recreation(2)	5.050	124.769	129.892	130.360	4.5	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.4
Video and audio(2)	1.445	109.731	112.568	113.457	3.4	0.8	-0.1	0.5	0.8
Pets, pet products and services(2)	1.075	184.359	198.626	199.268	8.1	0.3	2.1	0.9	0.2
Photography(2)	0.051	76.800	79.727	80.455	4.8	0.9	0.4	0.5	1.3
Food and beverages	14.298	273.441	296.915	300.081	9.7	1.1	1.0	0.8	1.1
Domestically produced farm food	6.987	264.290	291.954	295.893	12.0	1.3	1.6	1.3	1.3
Other services	9.874	373.725	385.184	386.219	3.3	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.3
Apparel less footwear	1.885	112.430	118.568	118.220	5.1	-0.3	0.7	-0.6	0.6
Fuels and utilities	4.728	255.631	286.339	295.153	15.5	3.1	2.0	1.2	2.9
Household energy	3.636	210.371	241.059	250.594	19.1	4.0	2.6	1.5	3.7
Medical care	8.362	523.918	541.515	543.488	3.7	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4
Transportation	18.984	229.689	266.892	274.282	19.4	2.8	3.9	-0.4	2.0
Private transportation	18.033	227.144	265.383	271.545	19.5	2.3	3.8	-1.0	1.6
New and used motor vehicles(2)	9.066	112.405	127.338	127.847	13.7	0.4	-1.2	0.9	0.9
Utilities and public transportation	8.327	228.265	244.061	250.991	10.0	2.8	1.1	2.0	2.2
Household furnishings and operations	4.789	131.086	142.110	142.736	8.9	0.4	1.0	0.4	0.4
Other goods and services	2.713	473.011	500.673	502.966	6.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5
Personal care	2.198	241.814	255.213	256.147	5.9	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4
Footnotes (1) Indexes on a December 1982=100 base. (2) Indexes on a December 1997=100 base. (3) Indexes on a December 1988=100 base.

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