APCP – Technical Minutes and papers

Meeting of 9 October 2020

Agenda

Minutes

Draft consumer prices development plan 2021*

CPIH: Producing a historical series for the period 1950 to 1987*

On Household Costs Indices*

*This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.

Meeting of 10 July 2020

Agenda

Minutes


Meeting of 17 April 2020

Agenda

Minutes

Contingency plan for ongoing price collection and compilation during the Covid-19 pandemic*

CPIH: Producing a historical series for the period 1947 to 1987**

Progress on automated classification of web-scraped clothing data**

Estimation and presentation of information on the accuracy of the Consumer Price Index**

*This is a draft of an article that has now been published and is available on the ONS website.

**This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 17 January 2020

Agenda

Minutes

Terms of reference*

Refining the higher education component of the Household Costs Indices

Expanding the measurement of interest payments on financial debt**

The winning formula? A framework for choosing an appropriate index method for use on web scraped and scanner data

* This paper is a draft update of the Terms of Reference, which has now been published on the UK Statistics Authority website.

** This paper is work in progress and has not been published at this time


Meeting of 8 November 2019

Agenda

Minutes

Proposed text for the consultation on the future of the Retail Prices Index*

* This paper is a partial draft of the consultation which has now been published on Citizen Space

Meeting of 6 September 2019

Agenda

Minutes

Alternative methods and data sources for package holidays – update*

Price collection in a no-deal scenario*

Updating the Data Source for Shop Type Weights*

Collecting Discounted Prices

Discussion on unweighted index number formulae**

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.

** This paper is a draft and has not been published at this time.


Meeting of 17 May 2019

Agenda

Minutes

The conceptual foundations of the Household Costs Indices (ESCOE workshop)

The conceptual foundations of the Household Costs Indices: Annex A

Alternative methods and data sources for package holidays*

Shortlisting Appropriate Index Methods

Classification metrics guidelines

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 11 January 2019

Agenda

Minutes

The use of unweighted indices in ONS’s consumer price statistics

Assessment of small area estimation for regional CPI expenditure weights*

The use of approximate expenditure weights for web scraped data

Quality adjustment review

Note from Jens Mehrhoff in response to APCP-T(19)01: The use of unweighted indices in ONS’ consumer price statistics

* This paper is a draft of an article that has now been published and is available on the ONS website.


Meeting of 14 December 2018

Agenda

Minutes

Calculating a price index for capital mortgage repayments*

Calculating a price index for student loan repayments*

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 7 September 2018

Agenda

Minutes*

Updating the data source for shop-type weights*

Variance estimates for the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs*

Proposed pipeline for processing alternative data sources

The use approximate expenditure weights for web scraped data in consumer price indices*

* Update 04/02/19: Minutes updated to correct a minor error.


Meeting of 11 May 2018

Agenda

Minutes

Calculating a price index for student loan repayments*

Draft work programme for consumer price statistics*

Investigating the use of web scraped data to improve clothing measurement*

Extending the classification structure

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 15 January 2018

Agenda

Minutes

Producing standard errors for CPIH*

Feasibility study into producing CPIH-consistent inflation rates for UK regions

Producing a historical series for CPIH*

Measuring changes in used car prices

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 15 September 2017

Agenda

Minutes (updated February 2018)

A theoretical framework for the Household Costs Indices*

Review of quality adjustment in consumer price statistics

Assessing the feasibility of web scraped data within current collection methods

Smoothing volatile weights

AOB – What is the likely scale of the effect of using the current chain linking algorithm

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 19 May 2017

Agenda

Minutes

The measurement of real household incomes in the UK: Options for a matched approach*

Including the cost of finance in CPIH and HCIs

Inflation for household groups: calculation of weights

Consumer prices work programme*

AOB – Chain linking algorithm question

* This paper has not been published at this time, for more information please refer to the published minutes.


Meeting of 20 January 2017

Agenda

Minutes

Terms of Reference

RPI and CPI: a tale of two formulae

Re-addressing the formula effect

Review of web-scraped price indices

Additional correspondence – OOH weight for imputed rentals


Meeting of 1 September 2016

Agenda

Minutes – Amended 14 February 2017

Inclusion of Council Tax in CPIH


Meeting of 10 May 2016

Agenda

Minutes

Written Submission


Meeting of 22 January 2016

Agenda

Draft Terms of Reference

Minutes

Consumer Price Indices in the UK

Dr Courtney’s notes on the minutes