Working Paper
Measuring housing services inflation
Abstract: Recent papers have questioned the accuracy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics? methodology for measuring implicit rents for owner-occupied housing. We propose cross-checking the BLS statistics by using data on owner-occupied and rental housing from the American Housing Survey.
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Bibliographic Information
Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Number: 98-21
Pages: 36 pages