dataset_id: bls-cu-cu-item
title: BLS consumer price index item codes
description: BLS consumer price index item codes discovered from download.bls.gov.
source_name: download.bls.gov
source_url: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/cu.item
update_frequency: adhoc
next_scan_at: '2026-09-29T02:00:00+00:00'
license:
  name: Public Domain U.S. Government
  url: https://www.bls.gov/bls/linksite.htm
tags:
- download.bls.gov
- prices
geography:
- United States
revisions:
- revision_id: 20260926192219-5521ab4d5c6a
  detected_at: '2026-09-26T19:22:19+00:00'
  source_updated_at: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT
  context: cu.item.tsv detected from cu.item.
  assets:
  - asset_id: asset-376f2a9dd2cc7bb3
    name: cu.item.tsv
    source_url: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/cu.item
    media_type: application/octet-stream
    content_hash: 376f2a9dd2cc7bb358118e6c0e031a404941cfe158b82612e807e44eabcec8fa
    size_bytes: 16554
    parent_archive_id: null
  row_count: 400
  headers:
  - item_code
  - item_name
  - display_level
  - selectable
  - sort_sequence
  sample_rows:
  - item_code: AA0
    item_name: All items - old base
    display_level: '0'
    selectable: T
    sort_sequence: '2'
  - item_code: AA0R
    item_name: Purchasing power of the consumer dollar - old base
    display_level: '0'
    selectable: T
    sort_sequence: '400'
  - item_code: SA0
    item_name: All items
    display_level: '0'
    selectable: T
    sort_sequence: '1'
  - item_code: SA0E
    item_name: Energy
    display_level: '1'
    selectable: T
    sort_sequence: '375'
  - item_code: SA0L1
    item_name: All items less food
    display_level: '1'
    selectable: T
    sort_sequence: '359'
  parser_errors: []
  logical_asset_id: ef88d73fd6c07a38f44a5e26
related_dataset_ids: []
quality:
  score: 100
  parsing_errors: []
  stale_warning: null
  broken_source_report: null
rss_feed_url: null
odc_version: '0.1'
last_successful_scan_at: '2026-09-26T19:22:19+00:00'