CPI measure for medical products, appliances and equipment

FOI Ref: ​FOI/2022/4142

You asked

Please supply the CPI inflation measure (%) for medical products, appliances and equipment for the last 36 months on an annualised and monthly basis.

We said

Thank you for your query about the CPI measure of medical products, appliances and equipment.

Please see the attached spreadsheet CPI medical products, appliances and equipment containing the required data.

This information is available on our website. The easiest way to access it is to enter "cpi medical products, appliances and equipment" in the search bar and the system brings up a list of possible series including the monthly and annual rates for the category. Selecting the relevant series will bring up the data which you can then download.

If you require other CPI series and the search function does not work so successfully, the best approach is to identify the series from our monthly reference tables. Table 4 is one of the tables showing lower-level details for CPI. It only holds data for recent months so if you require a longer time series then identify the series required, note the relevant four-character identifier on the left of the table and enter it in the website search bar. For example, the identifier for the monthly rate for medical products, appliances and equipment is D7MW.