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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990

FIRST QUARTER WAS

AS REGARDS THE CPI(B), THE INCREASE IN THE 9.1 PER CENT, COMPARED WITH 9.8 PER CENT AND 9.7 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTERS OF LAST YEAR.

RATES OF INCREASE ON THE YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISON, THE FASTER

FOR ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND IN THE CPI(A) IN MARCH 1990 WERE RECORDED

7 PER TOBACCO, SERVICES, FOODSTUFFS, AND TRANSPORT AND VEHICLES AT 16.

10.4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY. CENT, 13.6 PER CENT, 11.9 PER CENT AND

SAME COMPONENTS IN THE CPI (B) THE CORRESPONDING INCREASES FOR THE

AND 10.4 PER CENT WERE 16.5 PER CENT, 13.2 PER CENT, 12.1 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

WAS PARTLY

WHILE THE INCREASE IN ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND TOBACCO

WAS DUE TO HIGHER DUTY RATES, THE INCREASE IN THE SERVICES COMPONENT

FEES AND SCHOOL

HIGHER CHARGES FOR MEDICAL MOSTLY DUE TO HIGHER TREATMENT.

LARGELY DUE AS FOR THE FOODSTUFFS COMPONENT, THE INCREASE WAS

AND HIGHER PRICES TO HIGHER CHARGES FOR MEALS BOUGHT AWAY FROM HOME

INCREASE IN TRANSPORT AND VEHICLES WAS FOR FRESH VEGETABLES. THE PARTLY DUE TO INCREASE IN BUS FARES.

IN THE

CPI (A)

AND

QUARTERS

THE

THESE FOUR COMPONENTS TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR FOUR-FIFTHS OF THE

OVER THREE

OF OVERALL INCREASE INCREASE IN THE CPI(B).

COMPARING MARCH 1990 WITH FEBRUARY 1990, THE BY 1.1 PER CENT AND THE CPI(B), BY 1.0 PER CENT.

CPI(A) INCREASED

MONTHS ENDED THE AVERAGE CPI(A) AND AVERAGE CPI(B) FOR THE 12

PER CENT RESPECTIVELY HIGHER MARCH 1990 WERE 10.0 PER CENT AND 9.6 THAN THE AVERAGE FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDED MARCH 1989.

SEASONALLY RATE OF 0.9

DURING THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD ENDED MARCH 1990, THE ADJUSTED CPI(A) AND CPI(B) BOTH INCREASED AT AN AVERAGE PER CENT PER MONTH.

THE

CPI(A) AND

PATTERNS OF 50 PER CENT

HOUSEHOLDS

IN

HONG

THE CPI(B) ARE

30 PER AND

WERE KONG, WHICH

CENT,

DERIVED

BASED ON THE EXPENDITURE OF URBAN RESPECTIVELY,

THE 1984/85 FROM

HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEY.

SPENDING BETWEEN $2,000 AND THE CPI(A) REFERS TO HOUSEHOLDS

AND $9,999 $6,499 A MONTH AT THAT TIME AND THE CPI(B) BETWEEN $6,500 A MONTH.

AS

OF THE NINE CHANGES IN THE INDEXES FOR MARCH 1990 IN RESPECT

THE TWO CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES, COMMODITY/SERVICE SECTIONS IN COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY 1990 AND MARCH 1989, ARE GIVEN BELOW.

/(OCTOBER 1984