Datafile: 7 March 2008
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.
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Key statistics: prices and average earnings
Chart 1: Headline and underlying inflation
Table 1: Retail prices index
Table 2: Average earnings index, annual headline rate (seasonally adjusted)
Pay settlements: annual and quarterly figures
Table 3: IRS settlement analysis
Table 4: Settlement indicators
Table 5: Treasury survey of forecasts
Inflation forecasts
Earnings forecasts
Chart 2: Inflation and earnings
forecasts
Table 6: Forecast of annual rate of change in retail prices and earnings, 2008
Prices
- The headline rate of inflation, as measured by the annual change in the all-items retail prices index (RPI), was 4.1% in January 2008, up from December 2007.
- Underlying inflation - the 12-month change in the all-items RPI excluding mortgage interest payments (RPIX) - was 3.4% in January 2008, up from December 2007.
- The consumer prices index (CPI) rose by 2.2% in the year to January 2008, up from a month earlier.
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