Inflation Issues
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 […]
Calculating Exit and Entry Effects in the UK Consumer Price Series
by Andrew Baldwin Click here for the full report
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]