Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and Retail Prices Index (RPI)

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Methodology and articles

2009

• Estimated Effects of the April 2009 Budget on the Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: Updating Weights for 2009
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: The 2009 Basket of Goods and Services

2008

• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: Updating Weights for 2008
• Estimated Effects of the March 2008 Budget
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index : The 2008 Basket of Goods and Services

2007

• Updating Weights for 2007
• Estimated Effects of the March 2007 Budget
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: The 2007 Basket of Goods and Services

2006

• Estimated Effects of the March 2006 Budget
• The Consumer Prices Methodological Research Program: progress in 2005 and prospects for 2006
• Updating Weights for 2006
• New consumer price indices showing the impact of indirect taxes (CPIY and CPI-CT)
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: The 2006 Basket of Goods and Services

2005

• Consumer Price Indices: Review of the Year 2005
• The Consumer Prices Index: Goods and Services Indices and Special Aggregates
• Updating Weights for 2005
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: The 2005 Basket of Goods and Services
• Estimated Effects of the March 2005 Budget
• Methodological improvements to the Retail Prices Index and Consumer Prices Index from February 2005

2004

• Consumer Price Inflation: 1947 to 2004
• Consumer Price Inflation since 1750
• Updating Weights for 2004
• Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: The 2004 Basket of Goods and Services
• Estimated Effects of the March 2004 Budget
• Changes to methodology employed in the CPI and RPI from February 2004
• Relative Regional Consumer Price Levels in 2004
• The New Inflation Target: the statistical perspective

2003

• Updating Weights for 2003
• Price Indicators used in 2003 - Basket of Goods and Services
• Estimated Effects of the April 2003 Budget
• The Introduction of Hedonic Regression Techniques in 2003
• Developing estimates of relative regional consumer price levels
• Relative Regional Consumer Price Levels in 2003

2002

• Estimated effects on the Retail Prices Index of the April 2002 budget (23Kb, pdf)
• Price Indicators for 2002 - Basket of goods and services (35Kb, pdf)
• Updating Weights for 2002 (47Kb, pdf)
• Price levels in 2000 for London and the regions compared with the national average
• Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: goods and services indices
• The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: methodological improvements and extensions in coverage from January 2002

2001

• The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: methodological improvements from January 2001
• ONS and the Inflation Target
• Changing the Classification for the RPI

2000

• The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: update on methodological development, January 2000

1999

• The Seasonal Adjustment of RPIY
• Three-year programme on RPI Methodology

1998

• The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: introduction
• The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: historical estimates