Research and developments in the transformation of UK consumer price statistics: April 2021

Summary

The second in a series of biannual articles to update users on our research to modernise the measurement of consumer price inflation in the UK

Publications

• Classification of new data in UK consumer price statistics

  A broad outline of the different methods used for classification of alternative data sources, including a more detailed set of methods that will be applied in the classification of grocery scanner data.

• Research and developments in the transformation of UK consumer price statistics: April 2021

  The second in a series of biannual articles to update users on our research to modernise the measurement of consumer price inflation in the UK.

• Research into the use of scanner data for constructing UK consumer price statistics

  Research into using scanner data provided directly from UK retailers to integrate with other data sources in producing UK consumer price statistics.

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