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Formally known as the Price Statistics Review Committee, the Stigler Commission was convened in 1961 to study the measurement of
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in the
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. Headed by economist
George Stigler George Joseph Stigler (; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics. Early life and ...
, its mandate was to conduct research into all types of price indices, including the
Consumer Price Index A consumer price index (CPI) is a price index, the price of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households. Changes in measured CPI track changes in prices over time. Overview A CPI is a statistica ...
(CPI). Based on its recommendations, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as a principal agency of t ...
established a price research division. The next major commission like it was the
Boskin Commission The Boskin Commission, formally called the "Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index", was appointed by the United States Senate in 1995 to study possible bias in the computation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is used to meas ...
in 1996, which was solely focused on evaluating the CPI. Economy of the United States 1961 establishments in the United States 1961 in economics {{Econ-stub