Inflation Issues

Correspondence with the Office for Statistics Regulation

Correspondence with the Office for Statistics Regulation

In the correspondence below Better Statistics firstly asks whether the Office for Statistics Regulation is considering the HCI’s for status as National Statistics and queries the justification for continuing with CPIH as a National Statistic.

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Ed Humpherson’s reply

Provisional Timetable for the development of the RPI / CPIH decision

Provisional Timetable for the development of the RPI / CPIH decision

Jill Leyland

I have been asked to provide a timeline for the Retail Prices Index (RPI) showing the events leading up to the current situation. This is a first – and tentative – attempt; comments and additions are

Measuring inflation as households see it: Next steps for the household costs indices

Measuring inflation as households see it: Next steps for the household costs indices

Authors: John Astin and Jill Leyland

FOREWORD
In 2015, at the request of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), we published a paper “Towards a Household Inflation Index”. The proposed index was intended as a measure of inflation “as perceived and …

Household Cost Indices

Household Cost Indices

Jill Leyland and John Astin have drafted a thoughtful paper providing a valuable contribution to the ONS proposals for Household Cost Indices. This is of interest to all those concerned with measuring inflation; download your copy of Measuring Inflation as

Inflation Rate Polling

Inflation Rate Polling

Opinium Research have conducted a special project on behalf of Better Statistics for tomorrow’s Seminar on Inflation. Please download InflationTables for the results. A summary report will be available soon.…

Inflation Report

Inflation Report

Better Statistics advocates that public confidence in headline official statistics, such as the measure of inflation, should be monitored and targeted, with the targets influencing policy for both the collection and the presentation of those statistics to all elements of

Awareness of inflation amongst the general public

Awareness of inflation amongst the general public

Better Statistics CIC are grateful to Opinium Research for their support by conducting a short survey on awareness of inflation amongst the general public.

Following from the increase in inflation in the official April figure we wished to test the …

Commentary on “A Response to the Consultation on the Reform to Retail Prices Index (RPI) Methodology”

Commentary on “A Response to the Consultation on the Reform to Retail Prices Index (RPI) Methodology”

Summary:

On the 18th July 2019, Sir Bernard Jenkins reported to the House of Commons the findings of the then recent PACAC inquiry saying “In January 2019, the Economic Affairs Committee of the other place reported that by failing