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18 GOOLSBEEANDKLENOW Trim=0.05/Leveltrim=0.01 Headline -4.26 -2.49 -2.89 -2.48 HeadlineexApparel -1.40 -0.65 -0.21 1.61 Trim=0.05/Leveltrim=0.05 Headline -3.21 -0.07 -1.19 -1.23 HeadlineexApparel -1.55 -0.46 -0.23 1.70 7.2 MatchingCategories Wewere able to match 63 CPI ELIs and 2 CPI Strata to Adobe categories and aggregatesofthem. Wewillrefertotheseas65ELI’sforshort. TableA2provides averageannualinflationratesandothersampleinformationfortheDPIvs. CPI at the ELI level. Wecanalsoaggregateuptothe8CPIMajorGroups,sincethe65ELI’shave some coverage in all of them. Figures A1 through A8 plot the cumulative inflationratesfortheDPIvs. theCPIattheMajorGrouplevel. Figure A9 shows that revenue weighting in the DPI does not affect cumulative inflation relative to weighting each product within ELIs equally as in the CPI. Figure A10 shows that inflation would be even lower if one used Paasche or Fisher instead of Laspeyres, as we have done to facilitate comparisonwiththeCPI.

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