Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-July 2005
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CPI and Inflation Rates
July
2005
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased by 0.8 per cent from 182.5 points in June 2005 to 181.1 points in July 2005. The month-on-month overall inflation rate declined marginally from 11.9 per cent in June 2005 to 11.8 per cent in July 2005. However, during the same period, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket increased from 8.2 per cent to 8.3 per cent.