Consumer Price Index Numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the Month of September 2015

Consumer Price Index Numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural, Urban and Combined for the Month of September 2015
                                                                                                                           
Consumer Price Index Numbers on Base 2012=100 for Rural,
Urban and Combined for the Month of September 2015
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has revised the Base Year of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 2010=100 to 2012=100 with effect from the release of indices for the month of January 2015.
2.         In this press note, the CPI (Rural, Urban, Combined) on Base 2012=100 is being released for the month of September 2015. In addition to this, Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) for all India Rural, Urban and Combined are also being released for September 2015. Inflation rates (on point to point basis i.e. September, 2015 over September 2014), based on General Indices and CFPIs are given as follows:
Inflation rates based on CPI (General) and CFPI

Indices	September 2015 (Prov.)			August 2015 (Final)			September 2014 (Final)
	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.
CPI (General)	5.05	3.61	4.41	4.47	2.75	3.74	5.87	5.30	5.63
CFPI	4.05	3.45	3.88	3.02	0.84	2.20	6.33	5.99	6.22

Note: Prov.  – Provisional, Combd. - Combined
3.         Provisional indices for the month of September 2015 and also the final indices for August 2015 are being released with this note for all-India and for State/UTs. All-India provisional General (all- groups), Group and Sub-group level CPI and CFPI numbers for September, 2015 for Rural, Urban and Combined are given in Annexure I. The General Indices (Provisional) for the month of September 2015 for Rural, Urban and Combined are 127.0, 123.5 and 125.4 respectively.  The CFPI for Rural, Urban and Combined for the same month are 131.0, 131.8 and 131.3 respectively. The inflation rates of important categories of items are given in Annexure II.
4.         State/UT-wise General provisional CPI numbers for Rural, Urban and Combined are given in Annexure III. Inflation rates of major States, having population more than 50 lakhs as per population Census 2011, are given in Annexure IV. State/UT–wise Group CPIs are available on the Ministry’s website (www.mospi.gov.in).
5.         Price data are collected from selected towns by the Field Operations Division of NSSO and from selected villages by the Department of Posts. Price data are received through web portals, maintained by the National Informatics Centre.
Next date of release:  12th November 2015 (Thursday) for October 2015                  
Annexure I
All India Consumer Price Indices
(Base: 2012=100)

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