Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-January 2005
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CPI and Inflation Rates
January
2005
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.3 per cent from 172.2 points in December 2004 to 174.4 points in January 2005. However, month-on-month overall inflation rate declined from 16.3 per cent in December 2004 to 14.9 per cent in January 2005. During the same period month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also declined from 10.4 per cent to 9.9 per cent