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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