This article describes the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on price changes for food categories within the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics import/export price indexes, producer price indexes, and consumer price indexes. In addition, the article assesses the pandemicâs impact on price data collection efforts. Safety precautions established during the pandemic created data collection challenges for some price indexes more than others.
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Mead et al. (2020) studied this question.