Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Tablet computers added to UK inflation basket


Tablet computers, fiction books for teenagers and cans of stout are being put in the basket of goods used to calculate the UK's rate of inflation.
Items dropped from the basket include the cost of developing colour film.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) updates the basket each year so the contents accurately reflect current trends in spending.
The basket contains 700 items, with 180,000 individual prices collected each month.