Scale unit costs by gdp deflators to year in question.

scale_by_deflators(unit_costs, gdp_deflators, start_year = "2015/16",
  end_year)

Arguments

unit_costs

Unit costs by expenditure category and offence group as would be produced by map_unit_costs, and/or combined with the output of estimate_proxy_costs.

gdp_deflators

Official statistics from the ONS on GDP inflation as included in package at gdp_deflators.

start_year

Index year, default is "2015/16" as assumed in other unit-costs functions.

end_year

Target year.

Value

Returns unit costs scaled by GDP inflation.