Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical)

  1. Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) minutes: 11 January 2019

    Agenda Minutes The use of unweighted indices in ONS’s consumer price statistics Assessment of small area estimation for regional CPI expenditure weights* The use of approximate expenditure weights for web scraped data Quality adjustment review Note from Jens Mehrhoff in response to APCP-T(19)01: The use of unweighted indices in ONS’ consumer price statistics * This […]

  2. Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) minutes: 7 September 2018

    Agenda Minutes* Updating the data source for shop-type weights* Variance estimates for the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs* Proposed pipeline for processing alternative data sources The use approximate expenditure weights for web scraped data in consumer price indices* * Update 04/02/19: Minutes updated to correct a minor error.

  3. Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) minutes: 11 May 2018

    Agenda Minutes Calculating a price index for student loan repayments* Draft work programme for consumer price statistics* Investigating the use of web scraped data to improve clothing measurement* Extending the classification structure * This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.

  4. Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) minutes: 15 January 2018

    Agenda Minutes Producing standard errors for CPIH* Feasibility study into producing CPIH-consistent inflation rates for UK regions Producing a historical series for CPIH* Measuring changes in used car prices * This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.

  5. Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) minutes: 15 September 2017

    Agenda Minutes (updated February 2018) A theoretical framework for the Household Costs Indices* Review of quality adjustment in consumer price statistics Assessing the feasibility of web scraped data within current collection methods Smoothing volatile weights AOB – What is the likely scale of the effect of using the current chain linking algorithm * This paper has not […]

  6. Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Technical) minutes: 19 May 2017

    Agenda Minutes The measurement of real household incomes in the UK: Options for a matched approach* Including the cost of finance in CPIH and HCIs Inflation for household groups: calculation of weights Consumer prices work programme* AOB – Chain linking algorithm question * This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please […]