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Lucy replied

4 December 2006, 12:41
I kind of agree that CPI isn't all that useful. PPP is a more accurate way of comparing costs of living.
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ratewhore started a topic true cost of living (or not)

4 December 2006, 12:35
true cost of living (or not)

From the Telegraph, about the CPI:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...nflation04.xml

I like this bit:

A spokesman for the Office for National Statistics said: "The CPI and RPI are specifically not intended to measure what people often refer to as 'the cost of living'."
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