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Category Development Index (CDI)
Definition
An index comparing a category’s performance in a market versus its national average (Category Development Index, CDI)
How It's Calculated
(Category sales per household in market ÷ Category sales per household nationally) × 100
Example
Frozen pizza CDI is 140 in Chicago, meaning it over-indexes by 40% compared to the U.S. average.
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