Food at home
Groceries: 13 single-SKU items from BLS APU (milk, eggs, ground beef, whole chicken, white bread, bananas, potatoes, sugar, coffee, rice, oranges, tomatoes, cheddar).
Sources
Precedence ladder for food at home. Lower precedence wins where multiple sources cover the same period. The engine walks the ladder per period with chain-link rescale at source transitions.
| Precedence | Source | Series ID | Cadence | Geography |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000709112 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000708111 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000703112 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000706111 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000702111 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000711211 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000712112 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000715211 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000717311 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000701312 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000711311 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000712311 | monthly | national |
| 0 | BLS Average Price Data (APU) | APU0000710212 | monthly | national |
Weight across archetypes
How food at home is weighted in each of the 10 published archetypes. Sorted by weight, highest first. National Average is the headline citation surface.
| Archetype | Weight | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Retiree | 13.5397% | View archetype → |
| Income — Second Quintile | 12.8882% | View archetype → |
| Working Parent | 12.1785% | View archetype → |
| Income — Middle Quintile | 12.1413% | View archetype → |
| Income — Fourth Quintile | 11.7795% | View archetype → |
| Homeowner | 11.5885% | View archetype → |
| National Average | 11.3105% | View archetype → |
| Income — Lowest Quintile | 11.1432% | View archetype → |
| Renter | 10.6428% | View archetype → |
| Income — Highest Quintile | 10.5549% | View archetype → |
Substitution history
Substitution log entries that touched this stratum. Each entry
bumps the basket version and is reproducible from observations
tagged with their basket_version.
No substitution log entries reference this stratum directly.
Methodology
See the basket page for all 20 strata and the per-stratum source map. The methodology page covers the load-bearing pillars including the rules around source-precedence ladders, chain-link splicing at source transitions, and the no-fabricated-data invariant.