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Global CPI info, now crowd sourced!
Ran into this today, thought I'd share... Theoretically, this has the potential to really wake some people up. It bypasses the need for the average person to first of all even try to understand the concept of CPI, or how their government defines it (and continuously re-defines it to suite their needs/propaganda), and get right to the meat and potatoes of the issue: How does my city compare in terms of cost of living to other cities in the world? Which then begs the question in many cities: Wow, wtf is really going on with my city/country/government?
"Numbeo is the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. "
Map: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/gmaps.jsp (click on a "pin", then click the city name for details)
The main website [http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/] also has all kinds of other crowd sourced data (property prices, health care, crime, etc)
Sample graph:
"Numbeo is the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. "
Map: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/gmaps.jsp (click on a "pin", then click the city name for details)
The main website [http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/] also has all kinds of other crowd sourced data (property prices, health care, crime, etc)
Numbeo provides current and timely information on world living conditions including cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution. 965733 prices in 3826 cities entered by 114033 users (information updated 2013-10-18)
Numbeo provides a tool to see, share and compare information about cost of living worldwide, by providing online software which :
- provides to a reader of a website prices for free
- uses wisdom of the crowd to get as reliable data as possible
-provides a system for systematic research on cost of living and property markets
-calculates derived indices such as consumer price index, domestic purchasing power, etc.
-provides a system for other systematic economical research on huge dataset with worldwide data.
Numbeo provides a tool to see, share and compare information about cost of living worldwide, by providing online software which :
- provides to a reader of a website prices for free
- uses wisdom of the crowd to get as reliable data as possible
-provides a system for systematic research on cost of living and property markets
-calculates derived indices such as consumer price index, domestic purchasing power, etc.
-provides a system for other systematic economical research on huge dataset with worldwide data.
