AFFORDABILITY INDEX
A measurement of the capability of the population to afford the purchase of a specific item, a house for example, in relation to the income of the population. The value of 100 is used in the affordability index to mark the position of an individual earning a population's median income, values below 100 indicates that an item is more affordable while values over 100 indicates that an item is less likely to be affordable.
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| 06:30 | Industrial Production | Jul | |
| 08:30 | Producer & Import Prices | Aug | |
| 11:01 | New Yuan Loans | Aug | |
| 14:30 | Consumer Price Index | Aug | |
| 14:30 | Consumer Price Index Core | Aug | |
| 14:30 | Common Core CPI | Aug | |
| 14:30 | Trimmed Core CPI | Aug | |
| 14:30 | Median Core CPI | Aug | |
| 14:30 | Manufacturing Shipments | Jul |
