IFS work has looked at how inflation rates varied across different households, using survey data on household expenditure … to calculate RPI-based measures of household-specific inflation. This paper analyses whether CPI-based measures give … the RPI would have changed our previous results on the difference in inflation rates across household groups had they been …

This book is a non-technical introduction to the history of - and current measurement practice of - inflation for the …Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What is Inflation? -- Chapter 3. The Origins of Inflation Measurement: 1700 … United Kingdom, with comparative international case studies. The authors describe the historical development of inflation …