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Changing Consumer Price Index - What is in and what is out for 2024?

Graham Watson

11th March 2024

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The annual revision of the consumer bundle used to calculate inflation has come around and this BBC article provides a handy primer as to what's in and what's out. Air fryers and vinyl records in; hand sanitiser and sofa beds out - presumably in response to the end of the coronavirus pandemic in the case of the former.

Changing Consumer Price Index - What is in and what is out for 2024?
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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to tutor2u, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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