Consumer prices indices technical guidance

Summary

Explanation of how measures of consumer price inflation and associated indices are compiled.

Methodology

• Higher-level aggregation and weights in consumer prices

  How we use aggregation to combine our components of inflation together into higher-level components. This is part of our technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• How we publish our consumer prices outputs

  How consumer price inflation data are published, revised and supplemented with additional outputs. This is part of our technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• Scope and coverage of consumer prices indices

  What CPI and CPIH measure, how expenditure items are classified, and how representative items and prices are sampled and combined to produce inflation measures, part of technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• Special case aggregates in consumer prices

  How we adapt our methods for specific areas of the basket. This is part of our technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• Calculating the Retail Prices Index

  We describe the Retail Prices Index and how it is calculated. Part of technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• Consumer prices indices technical guidance

  How measures of consumer price inflation and associated indices are compiled. 

• Traditional data aggregates in consumer prices

  How we collect, process and validate price data from traditional sources to produce elementary aggregates. Part of technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• Alternative data aggregates in consumer prices

  How we use alternative data sources to produce elementary aggregates. Part of our technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

• Private rents and owner-occupier housing aggregates in consumer prices

  How we construct private rented property and owner occupiers’ housing costs indices from private rental data. This is part of our technical guidance on consumer prices indices.

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