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  "slug": "1996-april-statistics-web-resources-sidebar",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1996-april-statistics-web-resources-sidebar.html",
  "year": 1996,
  "month": "April",
  "monthNum": 4,
  "headline": "Statistics web resources sidebar",
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  "author_name": "Andy Lehren",
  "author_title": "staff",
  "affiliation": "NICAR",
  "summary": "A guide to resources for calculating and understanding inflation rates, including the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tools, comparative inflation analysis methods, and salary and housing cost calculators across different regions.",
  "keywords": [
    "inflation",
    "calculator",
    "resources"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Excel",
    "Internet",
    "World Wide Web"
  ],
  "full_text": "Want to use U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate inflation rates? Check out this straightforward primer at http://www.science.gmu.edu/csi779/drope/csi804/theory.html The BLS homepage on the consumer price index is at http://stats.bls.gov/cpihome.htm Oregon State's Prof. Robert Sahr offers a variety of ways to look at inflation - from blockbuster movies to Congressional pay. There is even a handy Excel table you can download. http://www.orst.edu/Dept/pol_sci/sahr/sahr.html You can point and click your way to compare housing prices at http://fly.HiWAAY.net/~rhuff/Postma/Cald Or, if you're moving, point and click to compare what your salary buys elsewhere in the U.S. at http://www.homefair.com/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html",
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