Release

Consumer price inflation, UK: March 2018

Released: 18 April 2018 9:30am
Next release: 23 May 2018

Summary

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

Publications

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 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. 

  • Consumer price inflation time series

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

Contact details

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    17 April 2018 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.

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest