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.
Updated September 20, 2016. Definition: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a monthly measurement of U.S. prices for most household goods and services. It reports inflation (rising prices) and deflation (falling prices.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys the prices of 80,000 consumer items to create the index.