8. Papers presented to APCP-Technical during 2021 and 2022
*Where links have not been provided the papers have not been published, reasons are documented in the published minutes for each panel meeting, and typically relate to the paper being a draft of a future publication or containing market sensitive material. Publication of each specific paper is discussed at each meeting.
| Date | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| January 2021 | APCP-T(21)01 Research indices using scanner data* | The latest research undertaken into the use of scanner data in our consumer price indices |
| January 2021 | APCP-T(21)02 Refunds in scanner data* | Preliminary advice on how to consider refunds in scanner data |
| January 2021 | APCP-T(21)03 Classification of Alternative Data Sources* | An update on clothing classification and research for grocery classification |
| January 2021 | APCP-T(21)04 Weekly online price changes for food and drink items methodology* | Challenges presented by producing weekly price indices, as well as our plans for improving the indices in the coming months |
| April 2021 | APCP-T(21)07 Lenders’ formula method for mortgage interest repayments APCP-T(21)08 Current mortgage interest payments methodology: a review | These papers present work to review the method used to calculate mortgage interest payments in the current Household Costs Indices estimates. |
| April 2021 | APCP-T(21)09 Dealing with product churn in web-scraped clothing data: product grouping methods | Methods and metrics under consideration for forming homogenous groups of products in web-scraped data, to reduce the effect of product churn. |
| April 2021 | APCP-T(21)10 Approximating Sales Quantities for Web Scraped UK Grocery Data* | Methods for producing sales quantity approximates for products at the elementary aggregate level. |
| April 2021 | Outlier detection and filtering methods for UK web-scraped and scanner data | Methods for anomaly detection to apply to scanner and web-scraped CPI data. |
| July 2021 | APCP-T(21)11 Integration of scanner and web-scraped data into consumer price statistics: aggregation and weights | Proposals and remaining challenges for the integration of scanner and web-scraped data into consumer price statistics |
| October 2021 | New index number methods in Consumer Price Statistics* | Through the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, the ONS commissioned a review of the framework, led by Kevin Fox and Peter Levell |
| October 2021 | APCP-T(21)14 Redeveloping private rental market statistics* | Discussions of the proposed method to measuring rental price statistics |
| October 2021 | APCP-T(21)15 Weights update, 2022 | An approach for calculation of weights for the CPIH and CPI for 2022 |
| October 2021 | APCP-T(21)16 Measuring mortgage interest payments in the Household Costs Indices | Research on the methodology for mortgage interest payments |
| January 2022 | APCP-T(22)01 Transformation of UK consumer price indices: Impact Analysis, 2022* | An outline of the updated consumer price transformation timeline and a summary of the impact analysis of the inclusion of Alternative Data Sources in the measures of consumer price inflation |
| January 2022 | APCP-T(22)02 Transformation of UK consumer price indices for rail fares | Using new transaction level data to produce price indices for rail fares, and the impact of these on UK consumer price statistics. |
| January 2022 | APCP-T(22)03 Transformation of consumer price indices for second-hand cars | Proposed methods for the calculation of second-hand car indices in the UK using online car listings data |
| May 2022 (correspondence) | Treatment of the upcoming energy rebate (Council Tax) | Proposed treatment of the April 2022 Council Tax rebate in consumer price inflation statistics. |
| July 2022 | APCP-T(22)07 Terms of reference for the APCP-T* | The terms of reference for the operation of the Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices – Technical |
| July 2022 | APCP-T(22)09 Multilateral index methods: introducing the GEKS Törnqvist* | Materials to provide step-by-step guidance on using the GEKS-Törnqvist and splicing techniques to improve the accessibility of these methods to wider audiences |
| July 2022 | APCP-T(22)10 Research indices using scanner data* | An update on the latest research undertaken into the use of scanner data |
| October 2022 | APCP-T(22)12 Index methods: framework for using multilaterals | Lower-level index methods choices needed in preparation for introducing alternative data sources in 2023 |
| October 2022 | APCP-T(22)13 Data cleaning within alternative data sources | Data cleaning methods (primarily outlier detection and junk filtering) for use with alternative data sources |
| October 2022 (Joint with APCP-S) | APCP-S(22)06 Transformation of UK consumer price indices: rail fares and second-hand cars* | Progress and readiness assessment in implementing new data for rail fares and second-hand cars in consumer price statistics. |