Dataset Living Costs and Food Survey: technical report data tables

Notice

28 May 2026

We are aware of a minor processing issue with the percentage standard errors and confidence intervals in Table 14 of this dataset in financial year ending (FYE) 2023 and FYE 2024, published alongside our Living Costs and Food Survey technical report. We are currently investigating this issue and plan to publish the correction on 11 June 2026.

About this Dataset

Information about sample sizes, response rates,  household characteristics, and expenditure uncertainty metrics for the Living Costs and Food Survey.

Edition in this dataset

2024 edition of this dataset

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2023 edition of this dataset

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2022 edition of this dataset

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2021 edition of this dataset

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2020 edition of this dataset

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2019 edition of this dataset

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2018 edition of this dataset

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2016 to 2017 edition of this dataset

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Contact details for this dataset

The LCF Research team
lcf_enquiries@ons.gov.uk

Publications that use this data

Methodology