Chained dollars
Used to express real dollar amounts adjusted over time for inflation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chained dollars is a method of adjusting real dollar amounts for inflation over time, to allow the comparison of figures from different years.[1] The U.S. Department of Commerce introduced the chained-dollar measure in 1996. It generally reflects dollar figures computed with 2012 as the base year.[2]