CSO index points to economic prosperity - you can even see it in our shopping baskets

It’s a long way from avocados we were reared, but this year our shopping baskets will be full of them.

This week, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) released its Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is the official indicator of inflation in Ireland.

The CPI has a shopping basket format where commonly purchased household items are tracked. It is carried out every five years and we have looked at the index from 1926 to 2017 to see how our spending habits have changed as a nation.