The Central Statistics Office publishes details of the latest updates to how it calculates the consumer price index .
The basket of goods and services used to measure inflation now contains 612 items, with latest additions including air fryers, smart watches, wireless speakers and wireless headphones, and disposable e-cigarettes . As people increasingly use their smartphones to listen to music and take photos and videos, the CSO has also removed MP4 players, digital cameras and photo printing from the list.
The CSO has said that as it moves to more continuous collection of the household budget survey, the CPI basket of goods and services could potentially be updated on an annual basis in future.
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