PPI weights to be updated.

From: PPI Detailed Report | Date: October 1, 2001 | Copyright information

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will soon update the value weights used to calculate Producer Price Indexes to more accurately reflect recent production and marketing patterns. The new weights, which will be introduced in February 2002 with the release of January 2002 index data, will be based on shipment values from the year 1997. These value weights come from the Census of Manufactures, the Census of Mining, the Census of Services, and the Census of Agriculture. PPI weights have been based upon 1992 census shipment values since January 1996.

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