BEA Regional Price Parities, Metro and Nonmetro Parts of States
How expensive the metropolitan and the rural (nonmetropolitan) parts of every state are compared with the national average, every year since 2008, for everything people buy and separately for goods, rents, utilities and other services. Use it to compare living costs in a state's cities with its countryside, or rural areas of different states with each other.
- Published by
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Source
- BEA (regional economic accounts)
- Original data
- apps.bea.gov
- Terms of use
- Public domain
- On the map
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The term "all items" refers to all the detailed consumption goods and services used in the estimation of the RPPs.
Nonmetropolitan portion includes micropolitan counties. Metropolitan Areas are defined (geographically delineated) by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) bulletin no. 23-01 issued July 21, 2023.
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 11 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | State FIPS code; 00 the United States |
name | BEA's name for the area |
portion | metropolitan or nonmetropolitan part of the state; all on the United States row |
year | Calendar year |
rpp_all_items | Regional price parity, all items: the price level against the national average, United States = 100 |
rpp_goods | Regional price parity, goods |
rpp_housing | Regional price parity, housing (rents) |
rpp_utilities | Regional price parity, utilities |
rpp_other_services | Regional price parity, other services |
implicit_price_deflator | Implicit regional price deflator, 2017 = 100 for the United States |
codes | BEA's code for each column it published no figure for ({"gdp": "D"}); null when every figure is published |