Consumer Price Index Numbers on Base 2012=100 December 2016

Consumer Price Index Numbers on Base 2012=100 For Rural, Urban and Combined for the Month of December 2016. 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) onBase 2012=100 is being released for the month of December 2016. In addition to this, Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) for all India Rural, Urban and Combined are also being released for December 2016. All India Inflation rates (on point to point basis i.e. current month over same month of last year, i.e., December2016 over December 2015), based on General Indices and CFPIs are given as follows:

All India Inflation rates (%) based on CPI (General) and CFPI

Indices	December 2016 (Prov.)			November 2016 (Final)			December 2015 (Final)
	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.	Rural	Urban	Combd.
CPI (General)	3.83	2.90	3.41	4.13	3.13	3.63	6.32	4.73	5.61
CFPI	2.06	0.15	1.37	2.79	0.75	2.03	6.41	6.31	6.40

Notes: Prov.  – Provisional, Combd. - Combined

3.         Monthly changes in the General Indices and CFPIs are given below:

Monthly changes (%) in All India CPI (General) and CFPI: Dec. 2016 over Nov. 2016

Indices	Rural			Urban			Combined
	Index Value		% Change	Index Value		% Change	Index Value		% Change
	Dec.16	Nov.16		Dec.16	Nov.16		Dec.16	Nov.16
CPI (General)	132.8	133.6	-0.60	127.6	128.5	-0.70	130.4	131.2	-0.61
CFPI	133.9	136.1	-1.62	131.6	134.7	-2.30	133.1	135.6	-1.84

Note: Figures of December 2016 are provisional.

4.         Provisional indices for the month of December 2016 and also the final indices for November 2016 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 December 2016 for Rural, Urban and Combined are given in Annexure I. The inflation rates of important categories of items are given in Annexure II. State/UT wise provisional General 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:  13^th February 2017 (Monday) for January 2017.