This is a reminder that an RSS Official Statistics Open meeting on “The
Retail Prices Index and the Consumer Price Index” will be held on:
Tuesday 25th January 2011 5pm
at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
(map available at http://membership.rss.org.uk/PDF/Map to RSS.pdf)
The Retail Prices Index is the traditional measure of retail price
inflation, and has been widely used for a range of purposes. Recently
the Government has been giving more prominence to an alternative
measure, the Consumer Price Index. This meeting will discuss whether the
CPI is a better inflation measure than the RPI for all or some purposes.
The ONS is considering how to improve the CPI and in particular how to
include housing costs, which are currently excluded.
Chaired by Michael Baxter, Official Statistics Section committee,
speakers are to include Pam Davies (responsible for price statistics at
ONS).
Tea and coffee will be provided.
Attendance is free and open to all, but pre-registration is recommended.
You can register by email: meetings"at"rss.org.uk or by phone (020) 7638
8998.
Greg Phillpotts
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