Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-March 2005
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CPI and Inflation Rates
March
2005
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 1.4 per cent from 176.1 points in February 2005 to 178.6 points in March 2005. The month-on-month overall inflation rate rose from 13.9 per cent in February 2005 to 14.1 per cent in March 2005. However, during the same period month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket declined from 7.8 per cent to 7.3 per cent.