All publications related to inflation and price indices

The second in a series of biannual articles to update users on our research to modernise the measurement of consumer price inflation in the UK.

Research into using scanner data provided directly from UK retailers to integrate with other data sources in producing UK consumer price statistics.

A broad outline of the different methods used for classification of alternative data sources, including a more detailed set of methods that will be applied in the classification of grocery scanner data.

The effects of reweighting the UK consumer prices inflation basket accounting for changes in consumption patterns during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The estimated direct effect of implementing the tax rate changes announced in the March 2021 Budget, previous Budgets and pre-Budget reports on the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).

The proposed development plan for consumer price statistics considers a range of priorities, including the rationale for these priorities and their potential impact. Resource requirements and a broad timeline are included to provide users of prices statistics with a greater understanding of the planned development work.

An overview of the latest annual update of Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH) weights.

The review process for the items making up the inflation basket used to calculate the UK consumer price inflation indices and how and why the various items in the basket are chosen.

Our approach to calculating weights and collecting reference prices for 2021 in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Additional economic analysis of the latest Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH), Producer Price Index (PPI), and long-term trends.