APPENDIX
INDICES OF PRICES AND COSTS SINCE 1946 (1948 100)
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Percentage increase between 1946 and 1954
1946
1947
1948 1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1. Prices of imports of goods and services
81
93
100
102
118
149
143
132
132
63
2. Home costs per unit
of output(1)
90
94
100
103
104
111
122
125
127
41
3. Price index of final
output(2)
87
94
100
103
107
118
126
127
128
...
...
47
4. Prices of exports of goods and services
84
92
100
103
110
130
138
130
128
52
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5. Consumer price
index(3)
87
93
100
102
106
114
121
123
125
44
6. Retail price index(4)
93(5)
100
103
106
116
126
130
132
13
(1) Home costs per unit of output are obtained by dividing the figure for domestic income of all kinds (wages, salaries, gross profits and other traders,
income gross domestic product at factor cost; see National Income and Expenditure, 1955) which rose as follows:—
86 91 100 107 111 123 135 143
95 97. 100 104 107 111 111 115
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by the figure for domestic product at constant prices which rose as follows:-
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(2) This index covers the prices of all finished goods and services produced for consumption, fixed investment or export. Pathis of all consumer bought average
This indey covers the prices of all consumer goods and services, weighted in the proportions consumed by the whole Pommanity14 of 321 (4) This index covers the prices of goods and services bought by the average wage-earning household. It differs from the consumer price index, for instance by giving greater weight to food prices (which have risen more than the average) and less weight to rent and rates (which have risen less than the average). There is no retail price index figure for 1946 comparable to that for later years. (5) Figure for June 1947.
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