Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-February 2008
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CPI and Inflation Rates
January
2008
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 2.1 per cent from 260.94 points in January 2008 to 266.37 points in February 2008. Month-on-month overall inflation rate accelerated slightly from 18.2 per cent in January 2008 to 19.1 per cent in February 2008. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket accelerated from 7.6 per cent in January 2008 to 9.3 per cent in February 2008.