Official statistics announcement

Producing a historical series for CPIH

CPIH, our lead measure of inflation, currently has a time series from 2005 to the present. This article sets out the approach taken to calculate a longer run time series back to 1987, and presents users with the extended series at the COICOP4 level and above.

• From: Office for National Statistics
• Published: 6 March 2018
• Last updated: 27 April 2018 — See all updates

• Proposed release: 1 May 2018 9:30am
• Cancellation date: 27 April 2018 11:19am

The release date has been changed

• Previous date: 9 April 2018 9:30am
• Reason for change: Further quality assurance needed.

Statistics release cancelled

Producing a historical series for CPIH’ has been removed from the release calendar. This is due to operational reasons. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.