I took a look at the prices of some of the items in the Chapwood index...
They claim the price of a gallon of milk in 2011 is $3.50. The USDA has the current simple average price of a gallon of milk at $3.54 as of April 1st in 2020.
The rest are not standardized items, so it is a bit difficult to find data, but the discrepancy in milk prices makes me suspicious of this dataset. Is the claim that all government departments are manipulating data?
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 18.3 ms ] threadThey claim the price of a gallon of milk in 2011 is $3.50. The USDA has the current simple average price of a gallon of milk at $3.54 as of April 1st in 2020.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/RetailMil...
The rest are not standardized items, so it is a bit difficult to find data, but the discrepancy in milk prices makes me suspicious of this dataset. Is the claim that all government departments are manipulating data?