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nine-month period, 50% was due to the foodstuffs component by

(6) virtue of its large weighting in the overall index

During the same period, the equivalent proportion of the overall increase accounted for by the four components was 70%

for the Consumer Price

Price Index (B) and 62% for the Hang Seng Consumer Price Index(7).

(6)

Weights attached to each component

Component

Foodstuffs

Housing

Fuel and light

and tobacco

Hang Seng

CPI(A)

CPI (B)

CPI

(8)

(8)

(%)

46

38

26

15

18

27

4

3

2

Alcoholic drinks

Clothing and footwear

Durable goods

Miscellaneous goods

35760

5

7

6

27∞LO

8

6

ANNE

1

7

7

7

Transport and

vehicles

5

6

9

Services

9

12

14

All items

100

100

100

Proportion of the increase in consumer prices during the first nine months of 1983 attributable to the increase in the prices

(7)

of :

Hang Seng

Component

CPI (A) (8)

CPI (B)

CPI

(%)

(*)

Foodstuffs

50

40

29

Housing

Fuel and light

22

9

13

2

2220

Alcoholic drinks

and tobacco

13

Clothing and footwear

2

Durable goods

4

Miscellaneous goods

4

лано

9

4

6

5

5376

Transport and

vehicles

6

8

Services All items

10

13

100

100

100

855

15

13

прид

46