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How Do You Calculate Inflation?

It's mainly driven by higher household energy bills. The office for national statistics uses a basket of goods to calculate what a typical household would buy. Almost a third of the items in that basket are already running at five % inflation or more a year. So m it could be a worse problem than the four point two number even suggests.

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