Kate Barker joins calls for swift, open review of CPI
Adding her voice to concerns about the credibility of official inflation figures, the economist Kate Barker CBE has urged the UK Statistics Authority to encourage the ONS to conduct its investigation ...
View ArticleRSS urges caution on ‘quick fix’ solution to inflation figures disparity
The Royal Statistical Society has been taking an active role in the continuing debate surrounding the way in which inflation is measured. In a recent Financial Times article, economics editor ...
View ArticleSociety expresses concern over forthcoming RPI consultation
Concerns about the timing and apparent limits of a forthcoming consultation, on the way in which the retail prices index (RPI) is calculated, have been expressed by the Royal Statistical Society ...
View ArticleRPI unchanged but new index introduced
The national statistician, Jil Matheson, has recommended that the formulae used to produce the RPI (Retail Prices Index) should remain unchanged, despite stating that one of the arithmetic ...
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