CPI measurement problems dwarfed by other concerns

The impact of the lockdowns on the ability of statisticians to collect price data means that measures of inflation will be less accurate than normal. However, this will probably have little impact on economic policy because these problems are dwarfed by concerns about the scale of the economic slump.

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