Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-February 2007
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CPI and Inflation Rates
February
2007
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.3 per cent from 220.7 points in January 2007 to 223.6 points in February 2007. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 9.7 per cent in January 2007 to 6.8 per cent in February 2007. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also declined from 6.4 per cent in January 2007 to 6.1 per cent in February 2007.