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MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1991

NEXT

PUBLISHED

ON

MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE POPULATION WOULD BE YEAR IN ANOTHER SERIES OF REPORTS, INCLUDING THE MAIN REPORT THE CENSUS.

THE

"

SUMMARY RESULTS' ENGLISH VERSION OF THE REPORT AVAILABLE FOR SALE TOMORROW (TUESDAY). THE CHINESE

WOULD

OF VERSION

WOULD PACKS

BE

THE

BE

THE

MAP AND REPORT

OTHER STATISTICAL REPORTS AND AVAILABLE FOR SALE SOMETIME AFTER THE MIDDLE OF NEXT MONTH.

0

CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES FOR SEPTEMBER RELEASED

1984/85-BASED CPI'S (SEE TABLE 1)

THE

HIGHER

BY THE

11.5% 1984/85-BASED CPI(A) FOR SEPTEMBER 1991 WAS

1990, ACCORDING TO THE FIGURES RELEASED CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY).

THAN

IN SEPTEMBER

THIS WAS CONSIDERABLY LOWER THAN THE RATES OF INCREASE OF 12.6% RECORDED SINCE IN JULY AND 12.7% IN AUGUST, AND WAS THE LOWEST RATE FEBRUARY 1991.

1984/85-BASED CP1(B) FOR SEPTEMBER 1991 WAS THE THAN IN SEPTEMBER 1990. THIS WAS ALSO LOWER THAN INCREASE OF 11.9% IN JULY AND 12.0% IN AUGUST.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THERE HAD IN FACT BEEN A SINCE APRIL THIS YEAR,

THE

11.2% HIGHER THE RATES

OF

CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT SAID GRADUAL BASING IN INFLATIONARY PRESSURES

ESSENTIAL

RATE "THE PICK-UP IN THE INFLATION

IN JULY AND AUGUST WAS LARGELY DUE TO A TEMPORARY UPSURGE IN THE PRICES OF CERTAIN FOODSTUFFS, HE SAID.

RATE INFLATION "AS THESE TEMPORARY EFFECTS SUBSIDED, THE

HAS TO 11.5 RESUMED ITS EARLIER TREND OF EASING, MODERATING CONSIDERABLY PER CENT IN SEPTEMBER, FROM 12.7 PER CENT IN THE PREVIOUS MONTH.'

**

COMMENTING ON THE INDIVIDUAL PRICE COMPONENTS, THE SPOKESMAN WERE LOWER THAN SAID THE PRICES OF FRESH VEGETABLES IN SEPTEMBER 1991

THIS

A YEAR EARLIER AND THE INCREASE IN SCHOOL FEES WAS MORE MODERATE TIME.

"IN ADDITION, AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S COUNTER-INFLATION

PUBLIC MEASURES ANNOUNCED EARLIER, RENTALS IN SOME

HOUSING ESTATES,

ARE SEPTEMBER, WHICH ARE NORMALLY RAISED IN THE MONTH OF THE CURRENT LEVEL FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR, HE ADDED.

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FROZEN AT

"A HIGH BASE OF COMPARISON IN SEPTEMBER 1990, LARGELY BECAUSE ALSO CONTRIBUTED OF HIGHER OIL PRODUCT PRICES DUE TO THE GULF CRISIS, IN PART TO THE SLOW-DOWN IN THE INFLATION RATE IN SEPTEMBER.

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/THE FINANCIAL