Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-May 2006
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CPI and Inflation Rates
May
2006
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 1.0 per cent from 210.7 points in April 2006 to 208.6 points in May 2006. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 14.9 per cent in April 2006 to 13.1 per cent in May 2006. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also eased from 5.0 per cent to 4.7 per cent.