uses the formula to track economic trends while accounting for inflation in the prices of goods and services produced in the United States. The GDP deflator is very similar to the GDP price index ...

Price and volume indices are important indicators in economic statistics ... This report examines the most often used index formulas and their characteristics.

while the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price NSA Index covers a broader group of places. Two economics professors, Karl Case and Robert Shiller, were separately studying ...