I read some cost of illness studies talking about using health care/Medical component of the CPI for inflation. However they don’t give a reference where they found them. I have been looking for this information on the statistics bureau of countries such as Australia, Canada, UK and US. However I couldn’t get any information about historical health care/medical component CPI. They just present the aggregated one. I assume the online inflators are also based on the aggregate CPI. Does anyone have an idea how I could get information on historical health care/medical component CPIs?
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In the US the go to site is at the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
You may be more interested in Australia:
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/6401.0Mar%202017?OpenDocument
where the 'TABLES 3 and 4. CPI: Groups, Weighted Average of Eight Capital Cities, Index Numbers and Percentage Changes' file give the Health CPI from 1989.
Thank you Robert Boer for the useful links. At the moment I am looking for the health care component CPI of both US, Australiua, Canada and UK. I am already done with US and Australia through you.
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