Summary

Price indices, percentage changes and weights for the different measures of consumer price inflation.

Publications

• Consumer price inflation detailed briefing note: December 2018

• Consumer price inflation, UK: December 2018

  Price indices, percentage changes and weights for the different measures of consumer price inflation.

Data

• Consumer price inflation tables

  Measures of monthly UK inflation data including CPIH, CPI and RPI. These tables complement the consumer price inflation time series dataset.

• Consumer price inflation time series

  Comprehensive database of time series covering measures of inflation data for the UK including CPIH, CPI and RPI.

• Consumer price inflation item indices and price quotes

  Price quote data (for locally collected items only) and item indices that underpin consumer price inflation statistics, giving users access to the detailed data that are used in the construction of the UK’s inflation figures. The data are being made available for research purposes only and are not an accredited official statistic. From October 2024, private school fees and part-time education classes have been included in the item indices file. 

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Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   15 January 2019 9:30am

   Reason for change

   Following a decision made by the UK Statistics Authority, we are changing the publication dates for the prices and labour market releases. The new release dates and further explanation of the reasons for these changes are available in ‘Changes to ONS release timetable’, which we published on 13 February.

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