ACCRA Cost of Living Index

ACCRA Cost of Living Index

Provides a useful and reasonably accurate measure of living cost differences among urban areas in the United States. Items on which the Index is based have been carefully chosen to reflect the different categories of consumer expenditures. Weights assigned to relative costs are based on government survey data on expenditure patterns for midmanagement households. All items are priced in each place at a specified time and according to standardized specifications.

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