Many mothers wonder how much expressed breastmilk they need to have available if they are away from baby. In exclusively breastfed babies, milk intake increases quickly during the first few weeks of life, then stays about the same between one and six months (though it likely increases short term during growth spurts).
The steps involved in calculating the consumer price index and the inflation rate, in order are: Fix the basket, find the prices, compute the basket's cost, choose a base year and compute the index, and compute the inflation rate.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) An economic indicator that measures the rate of inflation by tracking the cost of a fixed market basket of goods and services for urban consumers. The consumer price Index is reported as a total number and as the core CPI, which excludes the highly Volatile food and energy prices. CPI is used as the basis for benefit adjustments in government entitlement programs, such as social security, and for cost of living allowances (COLAS) for private-sector organizations.