Summary

Owner occupiers’ housing costs (OOH) are the costs of housing services associated with owning, maintaining and living in one’s own home. There is not a single defined measure of OOH because they can be calculated differently depending on what the target is.

Publications

• Measures of owner occupiers' housing costs, UK: January to March 2018

  Understanding the different approaches of measuring owner occupiers’ housing costs (OOH) associated with owning, maintaining and living in one's own home.

Data

• Measures of owner occupiers’ housing costs

  Monthly historical time series for all three approaches to measuring owner occupiers' housing costs – payments, rental equivalence and net acquisitions – including contributions to growth from the different approaches, UK.

• Measures of owner occupiers’ housing costs: weights analysis

  Aggregate inflation measure for owner occupiers' housing costs (OOH). Includes monthly time series and weights for all three approaches of measuring OOH – payments, rental equivalence and net acquisitions – aggregated with the Consumer Price Index (CPI), UK.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   12 June 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.

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