Transportation — vehicles
Vehicle purchase prices: Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index (seasonally-adjusted).
Sources
Precedence ladder for transportation — vehicles. 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 | manheim_uvvi Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index, monthly. Continuous 1997-01 → present; no CPI fallback needed. |
manheim_uvvi_seasonally_adjusted | — | national |
Weight across archetypes
How transportation — vehicles is weighted in each of the 10 published archetypes. Sorted by weight, highest first. National Average is the headline citation surface.
| Archetype | Weight | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Income — Fourth Quintile | 14.1652% | View archetype → |
| Income — Highest Quintile | 14.0935% | View archetype → |
| Homeowner | 13.6433% | View archetype → |
| Working Parent | 13.3955% | View archetype → |
| National Average | 12.7978% | View archetype → |
| Income — Middle Quintile | 12.7719% | View archetype → |
| Renter | 10.7684% | View archetype → |
| Income — Second Quintile | 10.7301% | View archetype → |
| Retiree | 10.5282% | View archetype → |
| Income — Lowest Quintile | 8.8059% | 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.