Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-March 2007
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CPI and Inflation Rates
March
2007
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.8 per cent from 223.6 points in February 2007 to 225.3 points in March 2007. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 6.8 per cent in February 2007 to 5.9 per cent in March 2007. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket remained at 6.1 per cent in March 2007 as the previous month.