Distributional aspects of inflation

Preface Financial support from the Nuffield Foundation (grant reference OPD/00101/G) is gratefully acknowledged. Material from the Family Expenditure Survey, made available by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) through the ESRC Data Archive, has been used by permission of the Controller of HMSO. Neither the ONS nor the ESRC Data Archive bears responsibility for the analysis or the interpretation of the data reported here. The authors are very grateful to for helpful advice and comments. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which has no corporate view. The authors are responsible for all errors.