The U.K.’s chief statistician said a measure of inflation
including housing will become the favoured gauge of consumer prices from
March. CPIH -- the consumer prices index
including owner-occupiers’ housing costs -- will be the “preferred measure” of
inflation for the Office for National Statistics. Switching to the new index
will address several flaws and limitations in alternative price measures and
simplify the current plethora of different gauges. A spokesman said: “At the
moment we have an alphabet of inflation measures so it’s important there’s more
clarity about what we think inflation is doing. By including housing costs,
CPIH is a better measure of inflation that people face up and down the
country.” Read more on the Bloomberg website.
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