The cost of living index compares cost of living among Zips with "100" being average, 200 being twice the average, and 50 being half the average and so on.

生活费指数指各邮政区域间生活费用的对照，100为平均数，200指平均数的两倍，50为平均数的一半，以此类推。

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To produce the annual index, International Living considers nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate.

《国际生活》杂志主要根据九大因素得出了这一年度指数，其中包括：生活成本、文化休閒、 经济、环境、自由度、健康、基础设施、安全风险和气候。

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Only Zips where the cost of living index was between 100 and 200 were considered.

我们只考虑生活费指数在100和200之间的邮政区域。

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We took the job-growth and cost-of-living rankings, and added to the mix a housing affordability index from research firm Moody's Economy.com and a salary index from Seattle-based compensation collection firm PayScale .

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More than 50, 000 individual prices are collected in each survey round, and a cost-of-living index is calculated from the price data to express the difference in the cost of living between any two cities.

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Complicating the budget situation is the president's decision against a commission to study a downward revision in the Consumer Price Index, which would reduce cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients and trim other federal benefits.

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