In general I agree that more reporting should include measures of uncertainty. But I also think there are cases when talking about inflation where uncertainty

In general I agree that more reporting should include measures of uncertainty. But I also think there are cases when talking about inflation where uncertainty measures are inappropriate. You can have uncertainty in the average price of avocados, or in the number of avocados that millennials consume on average. But those aren't very holistic views of inflation. If I define my holistic measure of inflation to be the CPI, then there's no margin of error. Its just a number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes every month. I can say, for example, that the CPI for June 2009 was exactly 215.693. Or that the CPI increased by 1.47%, exact to the nearest 0.01%, between March 2012 and 2013. On the other hand, if you want to ask whether the CPI is any good as a measure of inflation, then in general inflation isn't precisely enough defined to talk about that with a simple margin of error. There is no exact definition of inflation that we're trying to approximate, so we can't say things like "we're 95% confident that the actual inflation value was between 1.4% and 1.5%".