Methodology related to inflation and price indices

Quality and Methodology Information for the Services Producer Price Index, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used and data uses and users.

Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) report for the Producer Price Index, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

This article describes our plans for resuming a field-based price collection for our consumer price statistics, in light of the relaxing of movement restrictions in the UK.

The methodological framework for the third preliminary estimates of the Household Cost Indices.

This article provides the methodological framework for the second preliminary estimates of the Household Cost Indices.

Methodology used to calculate estimates of inflation rates for different types of households in the UK on a Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH)-consistent basis.

A feasibility study into producing Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH)-consistent inflation rates for UK regions was published by Southampton University, supported by Office for National Statistics, in November 2017. Its recommendations on improving expenditure estimates at a regional level and how this may lead to more stable regional CPIH estimates are followed up in this second report.

Quality and Methodology Information for Index of Private Housing Rental Prices, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used and data uses and users.

Quality assurance report for the administrative data sources used in the production of the Index of Private Housing Rental Prices.

Information about the users and uses of consumer price inflation statistics and user experiences of these statistics. In addition, it provides information on the characteristics of the different measures of consumer price inflation in relation to potential use, as well as the history of the indices.