All publications related to inflation and price indices

The estimated direct effect of implementing the tax rate changes announced in the Autumn 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).

Research into using product grouping to mitigate downward biases in our clothing web-scraped indices caused by products entering and leaving the market fast.

Plans to incorporate new data sources and methods into the structure of UK consumer price indices from 2023, including changes to the existing hierarchy and methods of weighting different strata.

Price movements of construction materials and plant hire between 2019 and 2021 and their causes.

Rising house prices and private rents mean that some workers are at risk of being priced out of living in rural and coastal areas, contributing to skill shortages in the tourism and hospitality industries that their local economies rely on.

Approach to calculating weights for 2021 in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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.

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