<p>Today the Office for National Statistics published its inflation figures for the year to January 2011. We find that although today's figures show that the headline rate of inflation is high, there is relatively little variation in average inflation rates across household types.</p>
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Andrew Leicester
Zoe Oldfield
Zoe is Head of Data Services. She joined the IFS in 1998 as a researcher and moved into Data Services in 2011.
Cormac O'Dea
Cormac is a Research Associate of the IFS, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale University and Research Fellow at the NBER.
Peter Levell
Peter joined in 2009. He has published several papers on the microeconomics of household spending and labour supply decisions over the life-cycle.
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