All publications related to inflation and price indices

The first 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 the use of new index number methods to calculate price indices using web-scraped and scanner data.

Feasibility of predicting sales quantities from product ranks, for potential use with web-scraped data in consumer price statistics.

Research into using supervised machine learning algorithms to efficiently classify web-scraped clothing data, for use in consumer price statistics.

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

Price indices, percentage changes and weights for the different measures of consumer price inflation.

Data and analysis of an alternative consumer prices basket, rescaled to remove unavailable items, for the period April to May 2020 in the UK during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The sources used to compile the weights required for chain-linking and a change to the classification framework.

The methodology and practical implementation of chain-linking for business prices, including the technical process of price updating sales data to forecast more representative weights.

Outlines the move from net to gross basis to measure the headline producer price index, removal of duty and the sources used to compile the weights required for chain-linking.