| Based on average wage figures do not add up |
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| CRITERIA CHANGES (CHANGING gOALPOSTS) |
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| Depends on people's standard of living. |
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| Depends on your circumstances |
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| Different items can have a different rate of inflation |
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| Do not include everthing you spend |
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| Does not always trust the figures |
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| Don't seem relevent - how broad the representation is. |
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| Everyones situation is different, therefore stats do not apply |
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| FIGURES DO NOT REPRES |
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| Government figures are misleading |
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| His boss keeps wages down because he thinks inflation is down. |
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| I live, I work, I see what is happening |
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| If you are not included figures are doubtful |
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| Keeping inflation down at a cost to other things |
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| MEASURE TOO SIMPLISTIC |
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| No way of assessing it |
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| Not enough information |
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| One person tells you one thing & another person tells you another |
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| Prices differ tremendously. |
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| Sometimes different to what one is actually experiencing |
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| THE COST OF LIVING VARIES SO MUCH THAT THGE FIGURES CAN BE MISLEading prices change without you knowing it |
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| Takes into consideration mortgage which does not reflect every day living |
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| We experience it - the difference between the figures and what happens to us. |
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| What they say in the paper does not seem to apply to real people |
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| When I`m shopping I see prices going up almost every week. They obviously dont go to supermarkets |
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| You get so many variations |
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| a lot of out going not effected by rpi data |
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| aFTER THE FIGURES ARE PUBLISHED THE NEWSPAPERS GIVE DIFFERENT REPORT |
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| areas not all the same |
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| as applied to individual households may not apply to their lifestyle |
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| bal of trade,political adv |
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| based on personal experience |
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| because i dont trust the government figures worked out for what thhey want to do |
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| because it goes through the media who mislead the masses |
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| because its a general figure |
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| because of what is included in calculation |
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| believes figures are correct but sometimes the parameters of the date collection are variable and those should be borne in mind when assessing the information |
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| cannot be perfect always |
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| cant take figures in isolation |
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| change their minds |
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| confused by it is mortgage rate included or not? |
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| confused dont understand |
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| confusing |
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| could be a load of bull, but other times it sounds right . prices could be kept down if the stats were right. |
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| depends on viewpoint |
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| diff.parts of the country |
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| different areas have diff costs |
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| difficult to relate shop prices to stats |
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| disagress\with own ecperience of prices |
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| do not include all factors |
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| do weekly shop-think pricesup higher than figures |
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| does not reflect resp's std of living |
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| doesn't take account of changes in quality/performance tnat can come with price rises. |
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| don't always take everything into account |
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| don't take account of underlying trends,i'm cynical of anything based on mathematics,there's got to be a deviation |
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| dont give you the correct figures thongs are going up |
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| dont reflect extremes only average |
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| dont see how they relate to me |
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| dont take into account mortgages |
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| dont trust the government |
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| dont trust the govt. |
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| doubt accuracy of figures |
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| figures are doctored politicaly |
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| figures can be affected by the weather/seasons |
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| figures can be manipulated |
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| figures discounted |
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| give 2 rates - misleading |
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| gives average only |
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| got to shop around when on a pension |
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| gov wants to boost public morale so they make the figures look better hoping you are going to votefor them |
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| govent not honest |
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| govt affects people diff |
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| gpvt. doesnt relate figures to people on lower incomes |
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| has studied economics |
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| high unemployment this area |
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| how can yousay that they are correct |
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| i dont think they are correct we only take on board what thet tell us do we trust the country |
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| ignore some elements which are of interest to older people |
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| its a historical no. |
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| its never coinciding with our way of living - ex it they say cost on average for 2 people living together never coincides with what i think - a e - |
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| just know - a feeling in my bones |
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| just not correct not a true picture |
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| making more of it than it actually is to get peoples attention |
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| misleading |
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| misleading figures sometimes artificial |
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| national figures do not take account of low wage area such as this |
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| natural mistrust of the establishment |
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| not all people buy yhe same things, figures are not typical for all |
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| not bothered by inflation figures |
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| not consistant change the goal posts |
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| not pricing right thing |
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| not representative of whole population |
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| nothing seems to be working out as they say , the figures are not working out toin a while you seeeverything changes again put your back up about things |
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| often been criticised for leaving out certain statistics and the reasons for leaving them out are a bit dubious |
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| often correct but can be inflenced by short -term fluctuations |
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| only an average |
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| only loking for certain things,depends on personal circumstances |
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| other figures come out to prove they are wrong |
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| out of date when released |
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| papers say they are misleading |
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| parameters that they measure |
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| people on low income cant be compared to people on higher income |
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| personal comparisons |
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| politicians of all sides can use figures to say what they want |
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| price going up above the rate of inflation |
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| price increases in shops bear no relation to price index, real prices are far in excess to price index |
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| prices are always rising in shops |
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| prices are controlled by the government and are not always correct. |
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| prices in shops dioent add up |
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| prices in shops more than rpi index does not cover things i buy i.e council tax |
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| retailed products only and not include mortgages or rents |
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| roundfigures, include mortgages, depend on personal circs. |
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| sampling errors + political manipulation |
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| see note |
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| slightly out of date |
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| so confusing that you dont know whether they are right wrong or otherwise |
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| so many factors involved include some figures not mortgage |
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| so many hidden things not available to general public |
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| sometimes disagree with figures |
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| sometimes things are missed out |
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| statistics can be manipulated |
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| take averages |
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| take tax of one thing but they put it on something else |
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| the govt. changes the basis of its statistics |
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| the minimum wages and avaeage wage i dont know anyone who gets the average petrol and everything around hear makes living very expensive |
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| the prices vary so much |
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| the things that alter most in price are sometimes ommitted such as coffee, oil etc |
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| they can be misconstrued |
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| they dont know what theyre doing sometimes |
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| things that are not affecting you personally |
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| think that average earnings are not as high as for normal people |
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| thinks they ar e sometimes wrong |
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| too many items included |
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| used to deal with rpi |
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| variation in figures at difdferent times |
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| varies by county |
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| varies in different parts of country, &income varies |
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| way collected include thing snot relevant tnat distort things |
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| who can say if they are right who can say if they are wrong |
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| you cannot trust the government can you, they cannot be sure that they are correct |
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