Some may use yoga mats and virtual reality headsets to mentally escape the daily grind but now statisticians are using them ...

The virtual basket contains over 700 carefully selected items representative of the goods and services that consumers typically spend their money on. The inflation basket is updated once a year by the ...

The items included in the consumer price inflation (CPI) basket of goods and services tend to reflect Britons’ typical shopping list and favourite feel-good purchases. VR headsets, yoga mats and ...

Stephen Burgess, ONS deputy director for prices, said the addition of VR headsets to the inflation basket pointed to Britons’ “appetite for emerging technology, while the loss of printed ...

Both items have made their way into the basket of goods and services used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to calculate inflation. The basket contains 752 items. The ONS collects the ...

The virtual basket contains over 700 carefully selected items representative of the goods and services that consumers typically spend their money on. The inflation basket is updated once a year by ...