---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 591.219"
title: "5"
number: "591.219"
heading: "How does OPM compute shelter price indexes?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/591.219"
---

# §591.219. How does OPM compute shelter price indexes?

- (a) In addition to rental and rental equivalence prices and/or estimates, OPM obtains for each unit surveyed information about the important characteristics of the unit, such as size, number of bathrooms, and other amenities that reflect the quality of the unit.
- (b) OPM then uses these characteristics and rental prices and/or estimates in hedonic regressions (a type of multiple regression) to compute for each COLA survey area the price index for rental and/or rental equivalent units of comparable quality and size between the COLA survey area and the Washington, DC, area.

## Notes

### Amendments

[67 FR 22340, May 3, 2002, as amended at 69 FR 59763, Oct. 6, 2004]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5941; E.O. 10000, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 792; and E.O. 12510, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 338.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 22340, May 3, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[67 FR 22340, May 3, 2002, as amended at 69 FR 59763, Oct. 6, 2004]