Schemes should stop debating whether to use the Retail Prices Index (RPI) or the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and move to an entirely new measure, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has said.
Both indices, as well as the fairly new CPI with housing (CPIH) index, fail in the society's tests on technical adequacy and public confidence, and therefore are not useful measures of inflation. ...
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