Posted by greatdanelola on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 11:30am.
This article will explain how it works.
It will also explain why it is not exact and why it can not be exact. There are other price indices, but none of them are "perfect", essentially for the same reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index
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