CPIx UK
Both regions61.3out of 100
As of 2026-08-28, CPIx UK stands at 61.3 out of 100 (Rising pressure), down 0.6 points on the previous week.
CPIx UK is a 0 to 100 reading of how stretched British households are. Six published economic series form the macro anchor, and a behavioural layer of higher-frequency data sits alongside it at equal weight. Weekly history runs back to 2008.
It is not the ONS Consumer Price Index. CPI measures how much prices moved; CPIx estimates the pressure those prices, wages, credit and energy costs put on a household. It is published by Briefed, not by a statistics authority.
The record.
Weekly history. The bands move with the reading, so a score means the same thing in 2019 as it does today.
Questions worth asking.
Answered here rather than behind a click, because a methodology nobody reads is a methodology nobody can check.
What does it actually measure?
Consumer financial stress: whether households are gaining or losing ground. The macro anchor is wages against inflation, consumer credit, labour market conditions, retail demand, household savings and energy costs. The behavioural layer reads what people are doing rather than what has been published about them.
Why does it disagree with the official statistics?
Because the two halves measure different things and the score does not force them to agree. Real wages can be improving while discount-seeking stays at sustained highs. The index sits between those readings rather than picking one, and that gap is usually the interesting part.
How often does it change?
It is recomputed every morning against the most recent published data. That data does not arrive daily, so the reading carries its own as-of date. Check it before quoting the number.
Can I use it?
Yes. Quote it, chart it, cite it in a piece. Credit Briefed and link to this page. There is no licence and no permission to request.
Is it a forecast?
No. It describes pressure now, from data already published. It is not built to predict, and it is not built to be traded on.
Quote it. Just credit us.
CPIx is published free. Credit Briefed and link to this page so a reader can check the reading themselves. There is no licence to buy and no form to fill in.
CPIx US is here, calculated the same way against United States sources, with bands set to its own distribution.