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COMPILED

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1993

BASED ON THE COMBINED THE COMPOSITE CPI, WHICH IS EXPENDITURE PATTERN OF HOUSEHOLDS COVERED BY THE THREE CPIS, SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 8.7% IN NOVEMBER OVER THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR, LOWER THAN THE CORRESPONDING INCREASE OF 9% IN OCTOBER.

THIS WAS

RELATIVELY SLOWER AND LIGHT (3.2% IN THE

GOODS

AND (3.9%

3.8%); FOOD EXCLUDING MEALS AT

CLOTHING AND

AND CPI(B)};

COMPARING NOVEMBER 1993 WITH NOVEMBER 1992, INCREASES IN PRICES WERE RECORDED FOR FUEL

THE CPI(A) AND 3.4% IN

CPI(B)); DURABLE

AND 5.9%); (6.4% MISCELLANEOUS

IN BOTH RESTAURANTS (6.9%

CPL(A) FOOTWEAR (7.7% IN THE CPI(A) AND 7.9% IN THE CP1(B)).

GOODS

AND

PRICES WERE ON THE OTHER HAND, RELATIVELY FASTER INCREASES IN

10.7% IN THE CPI(B)); RECORDED FOR HOUSING (10.9% IN THE CPI(A) AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES (9.9% AND 9.5%); AND TRANSPORT (9.7% AND 9%).

AND TOBACCO, IN THE CPI(A) AND

AS FOR MEALS AT RESTAURANTS AND ALCOHOLIC DRINKS THEIR CORRESPONDING INCREASES WERE 8.3% AND 8.7% 8.3% AND 8.1% IN THE CPI(B).

NOVEMBER

1993,

THE CPI (A) 0.2%. HOWEVER, THIS

1993 WITH OCTOBER COMPARING DECREASED BY 0.5% WHILE THE CPI(B) INCREASED BY COMPARISON COULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SEASONAL FACTORS.

AND 8.4%

AND RESPECTIVELY THAN

CPI(A)

ENDING NOVEMBER 1993, THE FOR THE THREE MONTHS CPI(B) WERE, ON AVERAGE, HIGHER BY 8.5% IN THE THREE MONTHS ENDING NOVEMBER 1992.

THE CPI(A) AND IN

FOR THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1993, CPI(B) WERE, ON AVERAGE, HIGHER BY 8.5% AND 8.7% RESPECTIVELY THAN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD IN 1992.

THE CPI(A) AND CPI (B) RESPECTIVELY THAN IN THE

FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDING NOVEMBER 1993 3 WERE, ON AVERAGE, HIGHER BY 8.6% AND 8.8% PRECEDING 12-MONTH PERIOD.

AVAILABLE FOR THE CPIS. BOTH INCREASED AT AN AVERAGE THE DESEASONALISED CPI(A) AND CPI(B) RATE OF 0.8% PER MONTH DURING THE THREE MONTHS ENDING NOVEMBER 1993.

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED SERIES ARE ALSO

THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX REPORT

WHICH

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