<p>Recent increases in the prices of food and fuel have led to higher inflation rates among older and poorer households than among younger and richer ones. Households in the poorest 10% of the population had an average inflation rate of 7.9% in September compared to rate of 5.1% for those in the richest 10%. The average across all households was 6.7%. </p><p></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.
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