No, Tim, that was interesting.
Not wanting to sound hurt or to be seen to be playing one upmanship but here's
the link to the RPI index numbers goiing back to 1947:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/RP02.pdf
£15 for a paper round, eh? So that's what next door's Sunday Times deliverer
gets paid for spitting on my lawn!!
Duncan Williamson
Quoting tm1 <[log in to unmask]>:
> Thanks Duncan. However, I had found this but what I wanted was the raw index
> number rather than the change in RPI so that I could do some price
> comparisons.
>
> It may be of interest (sorry if it is not) but my son has just started a
> paper round and I wanted to compare what he gets with what I got paid in
> 1968-9 when I used to do a paper round. I was paid 28 shillings (or £1.40) a
> week. This is now the equivalent of about £14. My son gets £15 a week.
>
> The comparison is not entirely fair as the requirements of the job are
> slightly different (number of houses, area covered, he marks up the papers
> whereas I used to pick them up marked up etc.) I think that his round is
> more equivalent to my brother's in 1965. He got 14 shillings, worth £8
> approx. now.
>
> Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duncan Williamson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Long run price index
>
>
> > Take a look at this too Tim
> > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/RP04.pdf as it takes
> you
> > back to 1948.
> >
> >
> > Duncan Williamson
> >
> > Quoting tm1 <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > Further to my earlier email about long run RPI figures, I have found
> what I
> > > wanted at:
> > > http://www.hants.gov.uk/ctweb/rpiannual.html
> > > If anyone else wanted to know.
> > >
> > > Tim Mason
> > >
> > > Head of Economics & Business Studies,
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