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Release date:21 March 2015
Next release:25 April 2015 pre-release access list
Inflation measures the rate of increase in prices for goods and services using price indices. The rate of inflation used in the UK government’s inflation target is measured using the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). One way to understand the CPI is to think of a very large shopping basket containing a large selection of the goods and services bought by households, the CPI estimateschanges to the total cost of this basket.
The Consumer Price Inflation is a monthly release that contains percentage changes and weights for the CPI, CPIH, RPI and RPIJ.
Measures of inflation over time, including CPI, RPI, CPIH and RPIJ.
This dataset gives access to a comprehensive database of time series from major national statistics and social economic releases.
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