Guide yourself through each step of the form. After all steps are completed, the magic built into this site will spit out your estimated personalized inflation
First, select your respective demographics in step 1.
Next, with steps 2-10, select your respective expenses that you incur on a monthly basis. Note that every form field is required. This site will not let you continue without every field containing a selection.
After the final step, click submit. The form will be posted to the site, where it will take your information that you inputted and output a graph depicting an estimation of your personalized inflation.
You may be interested in reading what the Bureau of Labor Statistics has to say about how the individual experiences inflation, but it doesn't look as pretty as this site.
First, the graph output will be refined to show the appropriate x-axis labels of the years. Also, for reference, US and Region inflation for the year range will also populate.
Next, the results output will be prettied to show the inflation in the correct format, that is XX.X%, rather than an number with 10+ decimal points that may confuse you.
As for the form itself, it isn't that pretty. And it is quite annoying how many submits one must go through to get to the results. Radio select buttons or user-inputted fields will be implemented once the designer learns how. Parameter descriptions will be most helpful too. For instance, gas could either mean gasoline, or natural gas (it's gasoline, by the way).
Lastly, the formalas for inflation need to be greatly refined. Because the Bureau of Labor Statistics enjoys publishing obfuscatory data, it needs to be combed better in order to produce a better estimate of your inflation. Currently, all Education expenses, including books and tuition, are mapped to "Education and communication" data giving by the BLS. Some regions have more refined data, yet currently the formulas default to the lowest level of data applicable for every region, which unfortunately is pretty high level data. Consider the current format to be a template for future refinement.
Please feel free to suggest implementations, formula calculations, etc to the creator.
Enjoy.