Until 1978, the PPI was known as the wholesale price index (WPI). In 1982, the BLS reset all Producer Price Index bases to 100. For example, the PPI does not measure price changes for aggregate ...
Unlike the WPI, the PPI doesn’t include indirect taxes and logistics cost. The WPI, which doesn’t truly capture ...
The government also signalled its intention to transition from WPI, which covers goods but not services, to a more comprehensive producer price index (PPI) that can track services. which account ...