Consumer Price Indexes
(October 1979 to September 1980 average=100)
Year-on-
Year-on-
year rate
of
CPI(A)
increase
CPI (B)
year rate Hang
of
Seng increase
CPI
Year-on-
year rate
of increase
(%)
( 8 )
( 8 )
1931 Oct
124
17.0
123
16.0
122
14.0
Nov
124
15.9
123
15.0
122
13.0
Dec
123
13.9
123
13.9
122
13.0
1982 Jan
125
13.6
125
13.6
124
13.8
Feb
127
13.4
126
12.5
125
12.5
Mar
127
12.4
125
11.5
126
11.5
Apr
127
11.4
127
11.4
127
11.4
May
129
11.2
129
12.2
129
12.2
Jun
130
11.1
130
11.1
131
12.9
Jul
131
10.1
131
11.0
131
11.0
Aug
132
9.1
131
و
132
11.9
Sep
132
9.1
132
10.0
133
10.8
6.7
the
Among all the
the components of goods and services in
various Consumer Price Indexes, clothing and footwear,
miscellaneous goods, services and foodstuffs recorded the
most rapid rates of increase during the twelve months ending September this year. Using the Consumer Price Index (A) for illustration, the prices of these components were 14%, 13%,
13% and 10% respectively higher in September 1932 than in September 1981. The increase in the prices of
prices of these four
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/ components