Reference Cards

The official figures on the arguments people actually have. Every official measure shown side by side - not the convenient one - with release dates, revision history and a hash-stamped source for every number. Primary sources only. No causal claims, ever.

• InflationThree official measures, side by side. They differ by construction - CPIH includes owner-occupiers' housing costs, CPI excludes them, RPI is no longer a National Statistic but is still used for some indexation.
• Labour marketUnemployment and employment rates are different denominators, not mirror images - both can rise at once when inactivity moves.
• Stop and searchRecorded stop-and-search incidents by force, by month, as published by police.uk - counted by the source's own categories.