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Missouri · Income — Middle Quintile

Annual rate of purchasing-power loss for the Income — Middle Quintile archetype in Missouri. Third income quintile from CEX 2000 Table 1.

Annual rate
3.47%
since 2000-01
Purchasing power
$0.41
of a 2000 dollar
Rolling 12-month
1.30%
as of 2025-12
vs national
-0.10 pp
national 3.57%

The Fixed Basket Index for the Income — Middle Quintile archetype in Missouri, January 2000 = 100. Download the full series: JSON · CSV.

Annual rate over time

Year-over-year change, %/yr (same-month, so seasonality cancels; 0% = no change). BLS CPI-U (national) is shown for comparison only — not used in the index.

Spendable-dollar variant

Counting only out-of-pocket healthcare (excluding the employer-paid premium share), the Income — Middle Quintile annual rate in Missouri is 3.08%/yr vs 3.47%/yr standard. Same prices, healthcare re-weighted — query ?basket=spendable on the API.

Per-stratum decomposition

Each contribution is the stratum's weight × its long-run rate over its coverage window, for the Income — Middle Quintile archetype in Missouri. They reconcile to the headline annual rate via a chain-link & coverage residual (table footer). The Source column shows which strata use Missouri-specific prices vs. national fallback — only state-priced strata make Missouri differ from the national rate.

Stratum Weight Long-run rate Contribution Coverage Source
Healthcare — total premium
healthcare_premium
15.58% 5.42% +0.84 pp 312 National
Shelter — rent
shelter_rent
9.95% 3.86% +0.38 pp 312 National
Food at home
food_at_home
12.14% 2.72% +0.33 pp 311 National
Transportation — vehicles
transportation_vehicles
12.77% 2.47% +0.32 pp 312 National
Entertainment and reading
entertainment
6.88% 4.21% +0.29 pp 312 National
Shelter — owned operating cost
shelter_owned_operating
6.21% 4.13% +0.26 pp 312 National
Home energy
energy_home
4.98% 3.74% +0.19 pp 312 National
Transportation — services
transportation_services
9.82% 1.88% +0.18 pp 312 National
Gasoline
energy_gasoline
5.11% 3.17% +0.16 pp 312 National
Apparel
apparel
6.36% 1.84% +0.12 pp 192 National
Education
education
1.55% 4.29% +0.07 pp 288 National
Other lodging
other_lodging
1.13% 2.53% +0.03 pp 300 National
Postage (USPS)
misc_postage
0.11% 3.37% +0.00 pp 312 National
Communications
communications
3.39% -1.76% -0.06 pp 312 National
Healthcare — out-of-pocket
healthcare_oop
4.02% -2.05% -0.08 pp 204 National
Contributions, summed+3.03 pp
Chain-link & coverage residual+0.45 pp
Headline annual rate3.47%

Coverage disclosure

For Missouri, 22% of basket weight is state-resolved, and 78% falls back to national pass-through. Per METHODOLOGY.md §5.8.

Show per-stratum coverage map
Stratum Band Weight State data range Source
Food at home National 11.31% bls_apu/APU0000709112
Gasoline National 4.83% eia/eia_gasoline_regular_weekly
Home energy State 4.92% 1989-01 → 2026-03 eia/eia_natgas_residential_monthly
Shelter — rent National 7.62% zillow_zori/zillow_zori_us_national_smoothed
Shelter — owned operating cost National 7.35% census_property_tax/fred_us_property_tax_per_capita_quarterly
Other lodging National 1.79% ahla_str_adr/str_us_hotel_adr_annual
Apparel National 6.95% levis_501/levis_501_stf_msrp_us
Transportation — vehicles National 12.80% manheim_uvvi/manheim_uvvi_seasonally_adjusted
Transportation — services National 10.14% aaa_driving/aaa_ydc_composite_cents_per_mile
Healthcare — total premium State 14.95% 2013 → 2024 kff_ehbs/kff_ehbs_premium_family_total
Healthcare — out-of-pocket National 4.06% nadac/nadac_metformin_hcl_500mg_tablet
Education State 2.37% 2004 → 2023 ipeds/ipeds_in_state_tuition_and_fees
Communications National 3.28% fcc_urs/fcc_urs_voice_us_residential_annual
Entertainment and reading National 7.52% nato_tickets/nato_us_avg_ticket_price
Postage (USPS) National 0.11% usps_stamp/usps_first_class_stamp_1oz

Other archetypes for Missouri

Switch to a different household profile for Missouri. Same state prices, different weight schedule.

Methodology

See the methodology page for the load-bearing pillars and the basket page for per-stratum weights and source map. See the Missouri state landing for the full coverage table.