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More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Is the RPI a Good Measure of Inflation?
If you take a weighted average of teachers as a whole, you get an 11% fall according to the IFS's numbers. But even if you look at experienced teachers only, the IFS say it's a 13% real terms fall since 2010. The union says it's 23%. That's a huge difference. So what's happening there? Yeah, the main reason for the gap between these two numbers is that the teachers union and the IFS are using different measures of inflation. And they've also focused only on experienced teachers, which is the group that has had the lowest pay rises. Although, Josephine, it sounds as though it's really the choice of RPI that's
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