Cyprus to look to condums for inflation

BBC:

Condoms and the anti-impotency drug Viagra might be joining the shopping basket of items used by the Cypriot government to measure inflation.

Most nations have a list of products whose prices they track, but such items are traditionally more bread and butter - both literally and metaphorically.

Cyprus' state statistics department is also proposing to add hunting licences and vodka to its new list of items.

The UK's Office for National Statistics added champagne to its list this year.

A Cypriot statistics official said the department was planning to add condoms to its list to improve the quality of inflation data in the country, seen as the birth place of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

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