Introducing alternative data into consumer price statistics: aggregation and weights

Summary

A summary of the new aggregation hierarchy and imputation methods we are introducing into our inflation statistics.

Publications

• Introducing alternative data into consumer price statistics: aggregation and weights

  New aggregation structure and weights methods, combining alternative and traditional data to measure consumer price inflation statistics.

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   29 April 2025 9:30am

   Reason for change

   The release time for this article has been changed to 7.00am to align with the release time for "Transformation of UK consumer price statistics, groceries scanner data analysis, April 2025".