Price index for: Personal consumption expenditures (PCE): Goods: Nondurable goods: Food and beverages purchased for off-premises consumption (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Indices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to data on the U.S. economy released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the price index for the item "Personal consumption expenditures (PCE): Goods: Nondurable goods: Food and beverages purchased for off-premises consumption" stood at 131.94 in May 2026, compared to 131.87 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 0.05 percent.
Sample. There are 809 data points overall in the monthly series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 1959 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: the price index had an average value of 61.89; it hit a trough of 15.84 in February 1960; it reached its maximum of 131.94 in May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Index |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 131.224 |
| 2026-04-30 | 131.865 |
| 2026-05-31 | 131.941 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Price index for: Personal consumption expenditures (PCE): Goods: Nondurable goods: Food and beverages purchased for off-premises consumption |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Prices |
| Data type | Fisher price index |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | Index (2017 = 100) |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Index |
| Source | Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Open data |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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Main index
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price index for: Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
Detail
Supplementary indices
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price index for: PCE excluding food and energy (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Price index for: PCE excluding food, energy, and housing (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Price index for: Energy goods and services (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Price index for: PCE services excluding energy and housing (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Price index for: Housing (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 809 | 1959-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Price index for: Market-based PCE (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 473 | 1987-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |
| Price index for: Market-based PCE excluding food and energy (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 473 | 1987-01-31 | 2026-05-31 |