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Prices and inflation

Prices of a wide variety of goods and services are collected for use in a range of price indexes for a variety of economic sectors.

A price index measures the change in price of a fixed basket of goods and services between two time periods. This change in prices over time is often called inflation.

Price indexes available are the Consumers Price Index (CPI), Capital Goods Price Index, Farm Expenses Price Index, Food Price Index, Labour Cost Index, Overseas Trade Indexes (Prices) and Producers Price Index.
 

Latest releases

Capital Goods Price Index
Consumers Price Index
Farm Expenses Price Index
Food Price Index
Labour Cost Index (All Labour Costs)
Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates)
Overseas Trade Indexes 

Producers Price Index 

Reports and articles

Consumers Price Index Retrospective Superlative Index, 2008
Consumers Price Index, Review 2008

Price indexes for services exports & imports

CPI Tradable and Non-tradable series

 

Newsletter

Price Index News

 

Poster

Updating the food price index basket



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Tools

Inflation and the CPI