Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-January 2007
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Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 3.1 per cent from 214.1 points in December 2006 to 220.7 points in January 2007. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 15.6 per cent in December 2006 to 9.7 per cent in January 2007. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket increased to 6.4 per cent in January 2007 from 5.9 per cent in December 2006.