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Whether respondents say prices of everyday goods and services increased, stayed the same, or decreased over the past year, asked in the CES in 2022 and 2024 with identical wording and scale.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 55% answered “Increased a lot” in CES: Change in prices of everyday goods over the past year, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Change in prices of everyday goods over the past year | Change in prices of everyday goods over the past year OVER THE PAST YEAR, have the prices of everyday goods and services...? Caveat: Same wording and scale; asked in 2022 (a different inflation context than 2024) | identical | Increased a lot → Increased a lot; Increased somewhat → Increased somewhat; Stayed about the same → Stayed about the same; Decreased somewhat → Decreased somewhat; Decreased a lot → Decreased a lot |
| CES: Change in prices of everyday goods over the past year | Change in prices of everyday goods over the past year OVER THE PAST YEAR, have the prices of everyday goods and services...? Caveat: Same wording and scale; asked in 2024 (a different inflation context than 2022) | identical | Increased a lot → Increased a lot; Increased somewhat → Increased somewhat; Stayed about the same → Stayed about the same; Decreased somewhat → Decreased somewhat; Decreased a lot → Decreased a lot |