CSO trends show costs are back to 2001 level

SCHOOL uniforms have been priced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) since November 1982 as part of the Consumer Price Index.

The index is based on the cost of girls’ and boys’ uniforms in a range of department stores and school uniform stockists every July, so takes into account prices for schools with different polices within the figure for each year.

However, the index figures provided by the CSO indicate that inflation in this area follows a pattern in line with the Celtic Tiger years.