Retail Prices Index

Inflation measures - UK.

(RPI).

Historically, RPI was the primary measure of consumer price inflation in the UK, calculated as the change from month to month in the prices of a standard basket of retail goods and services.

RPI was superseded as the primary inflation measure in the UK by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the (CPIH).

However, it continues to be calculated and published by the UK's Office for National Statistics.

See also

• Consumer Prices Index (CPI)
• Cost of living adjustment
• CPIH
• Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP)
• Index numbers
• Inflation
• Inflation target
• Limited Price Indexation
• Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• Output price index
• Personal Consumption Expenditures price index (PCE)
• Producer Price Index
• Retail mobility index
• RPI
• RPIX
• Treasury inflation-indexed securities

External link

• UK consumer price inflation - Office for National Statistics