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.
National consumer price index. To convert an index with base year 2013 to base year 2004, the starting value has to be multiplied by 1.2240. To convert an index with base year 2004 to base year 2013, the starting value has to be multiplied by 0.8170.