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Data Sources used by www.InflationaryPressure.com  


InflationaryPressure.com uses public domain data from a verity of sources to compile a coherent data set, which is harmonised and normalised to a common baseline.  This will allow fellow enthusiasts to spend their valuable time analysing the results and identifying relationships and correlations between the historical prices of goods and commodities with inflation.


UK Historic Inflation and Consumer Price Data    


The historic UK inflation data and consumer price data used to construct the Retail Price Index (RPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation measures, comes from the monthly Inflation reports published by the Offices of National Statistics (ONS) Statistical Bulletins.  

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Price+Indices+and+Inflation


The Consumer Price Index (CPI) have only been published since 1997, before this date the values have been estimated by the ONS and reported as the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) from 1988 to 1997 and as the Indicative HICP index from 1975 to 1988 in the report “Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: Historical Estimates” Economic Trends No. 541 December 1998.


All of this public sector information data is used the Open Government Licence v1.0


Historic Foreign Exchange Rate Data  


The exchange rates are used to covert the price of commodities and major foreign stock market indices in to UK Pounds Sterling, before indexing.


The foreign exchange rate data was obtained from the Bank of England (BoE) Statistical Interactive Database http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/iadb/Index.asp?first=yes&SectionRequired=I&HideNums=-1&ExtraInfo=true&Travel=NIx


The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, US

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/32219


Crude Oil Price Data in UK Pounds Sterling


The monthly average West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Spot Price came from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_spt_s1_d.htm


Gold Price Data in UK Pounds Sterling


The monthly average London PM Fix Gold price in Pounds Sterling came from the Bank of England (BoE) Statistical Interactive Database:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/iadb/index.asp?Travel=NIxIRx&levels=1&A4048XNode4048.x=4&A4048XNode4048.y=7&FullPage=&FullPageHi story=&Nodes=X33900X33901X3985&SectionRequired=I&HideNums=-1&ExtraInfo=true#BM


Silver Price Data in UK Pounds Sterling


The historic monthly average London PM Fix Silver price in US Dollars came from Canadian precious metals produces and dealer Kitco Metals Inc.

http://www.kitco.com/charts/historicalsilver.html


Platinum Price Data in UK Pounds Sterling


The historic monthly average London PM Fix Platinum price in US Dollars came from Canadian precious metals produces and dealer Kitco Metals Inc.

http://www.kitco.com/charts/historicalplatinum.html


Palladium Price Data in UK Pounds Sterling  


The historic monthly average London PM Fix Palladium price in US Dollars came from Canadian precious metals produces and dealer Kitco Metals Inc.

http://www.kitco.com/charts/historicalpalladium.html


Historic Investment Data  


The month end value of a number of major foreign stock market indices are collected from the daily report in the finical press such as the Financial Times http://markets.ft.com/Research/Markets/Overview

Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/markets/

and the Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata_europe.html



Historic Investment Data  


The Property Prices are based on Mortgage sales and collected by the ONS and published in the house price index series.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Housing+and+Households#tab-data-tables

About www.InflationaryPressure.com


www.InflationaryPressure.com has been created by a team of financial data enthusiasts with global experience including governance of FTSE 100 pension funds.


The carefully selected data is drawn from the mountain of figures which is currently available in the public domain.  We believe that a coherent data set, which is harmonised and has a clear UK focus, will save other enthusiasts significant time and effort.  


This will allow energy to be spent analysing the results, understanding relationships with other measures, and establishing an appreciation of how this data represents the economy we live in.



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