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Focus on Consumer Price Indices
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Provides detailed information on: Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is the main domestic measure of UK inflation for macroeconomic purposes; Retail Prices Index (RPI), which is the most familiar general purpose measure of UK inflation of goods and services; headline rate of inflation and underlying rate of inflation.
It contains tables of latest figures, average retail prices, CPI data back to 1996, RPI data back to 1987, long run series of consumer price inflation, purchasing power of the pound, EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Price Indices (HICP) back to 1998, seasonally adjusted RPIY and RPI pensioner indices. There are useful charts and helpful guides on Consumer Price Indices with links to other information held on the National Statistics website, plus a list of future publication... View more information about this product
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