Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-October 2007
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CPI and Inflation Rates
October
2007
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.8 per cent from 228.16 points in September 2007 to 229.99 points in October 2007. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 11.7 per cent in September 2007 to 10.6 per cent in October 2007. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket increased from 5.1 per cent in September 2007 to 5.2 per cent in October 2007.