All publications related to inflation and price indices

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.

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

Analysis of the impact of the changes to the PPI methodology, notably annually chain-linking the Producer Price Index (PPI) and the redefinition of headline values from a net sector coverage to a gross sector coverage.

The development of the Household Costs Indices, a set of measures that aim to reflect UK households’ experience of changing prices and costs.

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

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

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

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.

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

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