Consumer Price Indexes
(October 1979 to September 1980 average=100)
Year-on-
Year-on-
Year-on-
year rate
of
CPI (A)
increase
CPI (B)
year rate
of increase
Hang
Seng
CPI
year rate
of increase
( 8 )
(%)
(8)
1981 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
12.6
Mar
127
12.4
126
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
6.14
Among all the components of the Consumer Price
Indexes, foodstuffs, clothing and footwear, and services
recorded the most rapid rates of increase during the first
half of 1982. Using the Consumer Price Index (A) for
illustration, the prices of these components were 8.9%, 6.5%
and 5.6% respectively higher in June 1982 than in December
increase in the prices of these three components
for about 82% of the overall
1981. The
accounted
increase in the
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