Lok Sabha Question No. 1121 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-02
Subject: Consumer Price Index
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: VIJAY KUMAR S.R., (ADV.) JOICE GEORGE, SUNIL BALIRAM GAIKWAD, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, GAJANAN CHANDRAKANT KIRTIKAR, KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1121

TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 2 ND  MARCH, 2016

## CONSUMER PRICE INDEX

## 1121.  SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR:

ADV. JOICE GEORGE:

DR. SUNIL BALIRAM GAIKWAD:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Consumer  Price  Index  (CPI)  is  widely  used  as  a macro economic indicator of inflation;
- (b) if  so, whether the Government has revised the base year of CPI recently  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  objective  behind this move;
- (c)
- the details of CPI number of rural, urban and combined;
- (d)
- (e)
- the details of the inflation rates, State/UT-wise; and
- the criteria fixed by the Government for collecting price data?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  MINISTRY  OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION AND MINISTER OF STATE  FOR  MINISTRY  OF  EXTERNAL  AFFAIRS  [GENERAL  (Dr.)  V.K.

SINGH (Retd.)]

- (a) : Yes,  Madam.  The  Reserve  Bank  of  India  uses  Consumer  Price Index (Combined) as the key measure of inflation for formulating the Monetary Policy of India. Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Statistics  and  Programme  Implementation  also  uses  this  index  as proxy  indicator  for  movement  in  prices  of  concerned  items  for

converting  current  price  estimates  to  constant  price  estimates  of National Accounts and vice-versa.

- (b) :  The  Government  has  revised  the  Base  Year  of  Consumer  Price Index from 2010 to 2012 with effect from the index of January 2015. The  objective  behind  this  revision  was  to  consider  a  more  recent period  (2012  now  in  place  of  2010  earlier)  as  the  Base  Year  and  to minimize the gap between 'Price Reference Year' or the Base Year and 'Weight Reference Year' (i.e. the year in respect of which the data of consumer  expenditure  is  used  to  compute  weights  for  aggregating elementary  indices  to  compile  higher  level  indices  i.e.  sub-group, group  and  overall  indices).  Details  of  the  Base  Year  Revision  are available  in  the  publication  'Consumer  Price  Index:  Changes  in  the Revised Series (Base Year 2012=100)' and in the Report of the 'Group of  Technical  Advisory  Committee  on  Statistics  of  Prices  and  Cost  of Living' available on the website of the Ministry (www.mospi.gov.in).
- (c) :  All  India  Monthly  Consumer  Price  indices  for  Rural,  Urban  and Combined sectors for the period of January 2015 to January 2016 are at Annexure I.
- (d) :  Year on Year Inflation Rates (i.e. Current month over same month of  last  year),  based  on  CPI  (Combined)  for  all-India  as  well  as States/Union  Territories  for  the  period  of  January  2015  to  January 2016, are at Annexure II.
- (e) :  The  Basket  of  Items  for  CPI  is  prepared  by  providing  relative importance to various items of consumption (in terms of their shares of  expenditure  in  household  budget)  and  consumption  pattern  of  the people across the States/Union Territories. Items have been classified into  six  groups,  23  sub-groups  and  various  sections.  Prices  of  the finalized  basket  of  items  are  collected  from  1,181  selected  village markets covering all districts of the country for rural areas and from 1,114 urban markets of 310 selected towns of urban areas.

## Annexure I

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1121 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 02.03.2016 All India Consumer Price Indices for Rural, Urban and Combined

## sectors for the period of January 2015 to January 2016

(Base: 2012 = 100)

Note- P: Provisional i.e. figures for January 2016 are provisional.

| Month-Year       |   Rural |   Urban |   Combined |
|------------------|---------|---------|------------|
| January 2015     |   120.3 |   118.5 |      119.5 |
| February 2015    |   120.6 |   118.7 |      119.7 |
| March 2015       |   121.1 |   119.1 |      120.2 |
| April 2015       |   121.5 |   119.7 |      120.7 |
| May 2015         |   122.4 |   120.7 |      121.6 |
| June 2015        |   124.1 |   121.7 |      123   |
| July 2015 August |   124.7 |   122.4 |      123.6 |
| 2015             |   126.1 |   123.2 |      124.8 |
| September 2015   |   127   |   123.5 |      125.4 |
| October 2015     |   127.7 |   124.2 |      126.1 |
| November 2015    |   128.3 |   124.6 |      126.6 |
| December 2015    |   127.9 |   124   |      126.1 |
| January 2016 (P) |   128.1 |   124.2 |      126.3 |

## Annexure II

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (d) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1121 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 02.03.2016

Year on Year Inflation Rates (i.e. Current month over same month of last year), based on CPI (Combined) for all-India as well as States/Union Territories, on Base 2012, from January 2015 to January 2016

| State/ UT Code   | All India/States/Union Territories   | Jan. 2015   | Feb. 2015   | Mar. 2015   | Apr. 2015   | May. 2015   | Jun. 2015   | Jul. 2015   | Aug. 2015   | Sep. 2015   | Oct. 2015   | Nov. 2015   | Dec. 2015   | Jan. 2016 (P)   |
|------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|
| 99               | All India                            | 5.19        | 5.37        | 5.25        | 4.87        | 5.01        | 5.40        | 3.69        | 3.74        | 4.41        | 5.00        | 5.41        | 5.61        | 5.69            |
| 01               | Jammu and Kashmir                    | 6.06        | 6.97        | 7.12        | 7.80        | 8.28        | 6.80        | 5.96        | 6.17        | 5.54        | 6.38        | 6.55        | 6.23        | 4.54            |
| 02               | Himachal Pradesh                     | 4.70        | 5.40        | 5.45        | 5.24        | 5.67        | 5.99        | 4.54        | 4.50        | 4.56        | 4.29        | 4.14        | 3.56        | 3.90            |
| 03               | Punjab                               | 5.53        | 5.52        | 5.23        | 4.57        | 4.73        | 4.88        | 2.72        | 2.52        | 2.93        | 3.18        | 3.95        | 3.65        | 3.13            |
| 04               | Chandigarh                           | 5.71        | 5.24        | 4.83        | 4.06        | 3.58        | 3.83        | 2.75        | 2.73        | 2.89        | 3.40        | 3.75        | 4.47        | 4.20            |
| 05               | Uttarakhand                          | 4.03        | 3.75        | 3.46        | 2.64        | 2.80        | 3.41        | 2.67        | 2.55        | 3.23        | 3.65        | 3.83        | 3.78        | 3.79            |
| 06               | Haryana                              | 5.30        | 5.21        | 5.26        | 4.87        | 4.75        | 4.97        | 3.07        | 2.70        | 3.20        | 3.80        | 4.49        | 4.44        | 4.01            |
| 07               | Delhi                                | 4.61        | 4.04        | 4.91        | 5.32        | 5.73        | 5.74        | 4.31        | 4.37        | 5.13        | 5.21        | 4.88        | 4.53        | 4.66            |
| 08 Rajasthan     |                                      | 6.10        | 6.63        | 6.85        | 6.36        | 7.13        | 6.72        | 4.79        | 4.06        | 5.08        | 6.17        | 6.34        | 6.28        | 6.00            |
| 09               | Uttar Pradesh                        | 4.21        | 4.47        | 3.82        | 3.36        | 3.52        | 4.11        | 3.02        | 2.48        | 3.22        | 3.96        | 4.55        | 5.19        | 5.56            |
| 10               | Bihar                                | 5.05        | 4.89        | 4.08        | 3.46        | 2.93        | 3.57        | 2.68        | 4.46        | 5.32        | 4.89        | 4.33        | 5.39        | 5.30            |
| 11               | Sikkim                               | 4.01        | 3.83        | 3.81        | 4.05        | 4.12        | 4.08        | 4.12        | 4.16        | 5.47        | 6.41        | 6.01        | 7.49        | 12.67           |
| 12 Arunachal     | Pradesh                              | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --          | --              |
| 13               | Nagaland                             | 7.46        | 8.09        | 9.24        | 7.10        | 7.33        | 5.36        | 4.54        | 4.65        | 4.88        | 5.09        | 5.90        | 4.83        | 6.53            |
| 14 Manipur       |                                      | 3.80        | 6.13        | 6.49        | 5.79        | 5.93        | 6.39        | 6.18        | 5.69        | 5.49        | 5.01        | 5.38        | 6.06        | 4.74            |
| 15               | Mizoram                              | 3.83        | 3.40        | 3.24        | 3.76        | 3.40        | 2.86        | 3.27        | 2.82        | 3.74        | 3.21        | 4.70        | 5.02        | 3.28            |
| 16               | Tripura                              | 7.28        | 6.92        | 4.87        | 3.06        | 3.21        | 2.38        | 0.94        | 1.16        | 1.53        | 1.83        | 1.45        | 3.66        | 4.57            |
| 17               | Meghalaya                            | 11.60       | 11.89       | 9.81        | 9.31        | 7.98        | 6.98        | 6.36        | 7.01        | 8.17        | 7.67        | 7.19        | 7.73        | 7.27            |

|   State/ UT Code | All India/States/Union Territories   |   Jan. 2015 |   Feb. 2015 |   Mar. 2015 |   Apr. 2015 |   May. 2015 |   Jun. 2015 |   Jul. 2015 |   Aug. 2015 |   Sep. 2015 |   Oct. 2015 |   Nov. 2015 |   Dec. 2015 |   Jan. 2016 (P) |
|------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|
|               18 | Assam                                |        2.44 |        3.32 |        3.13 |        4.36 |        5.11 |        4.7  |        3.54 |        3.77 |        3.97 |        4.62 |        5.14 |        5.9  |            6.05 |
|               19 | West Bengal                          |        2.67 |        3.72 |        2.75 |        2.4  |        1.87 |        2.54 |        2.09 |        3.23 |        3.64 |        3.55 |        3.4  |        4.02 |            5.12 |
|               20 | Jharkhand                            |        2.78 |        3.58 |        3.74 |        3.72 |        4.05 |        4.26 |        3.84 |        3.87 |        5.22 |        5.39 |        5.39 |        6.22 |            7.02 |
|               21 | Odisha                               |        5.07 |        7    |        7.73 |        7.42 |        6.76 |        6.63 |        4.29 |        3.89 |        3.88 |        5.93 |        6.85 |        7.61 |            8.06 |
|               22 | Chhattisgarh                         |        4.95 |        6.02 |        6.51 |        6.99 |        8.1  |        8.34 |        4.53 |        3.29 |        4.87 |        7.6  |        8.68 |        6.81 |            8.68 |
|               23 | Madhya Pradesh                       |        5.18 |        4.82 |        5.33 |        4.96 |        5.02 |        5.24 |        3.45 |        2.9  |        3.92 |        4.67 |        4.83 |        4.85 |            4.5  |
|               24 | Gujarat                              |        5    |        5.64 |        5.43 |        5.04 |        5.18 |        5.37 |        3.82 |        3.18 |        4.13 |        5.24 |        5.76 |        5.52 |            5.44 |
|               25 | Daman and Diu                        |        7.26 |        6.53 |        7.3  |        6.59 |        6.98 |        9.03 |        8.93 |        7    |        9.03 |        9.86 |        9.34 |       10.21 |           10.68 |
|               26 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli               |        3.77 |        4.05 |        4.22 |        3.84 |        4.64 |        4.48 |        2.49 |        2.37 |        3.96 |        6.66 |        6.9  |        7.3  |            6.58 |
|               27 | Maharashtra                          |        5.47 |        5.45 |        5.34 |        5.03 |        5    |        5.13 |        2.98 |        3.22 |        4    |        4.68 |        5.19 |        5.02 |            4.93 |
|               28 | Andhra Pradesh                       |        5.54 |        6.06 |        6.04 |        6.19 |        6.21 |        7.26 |        5    |        5.56 |        7.21 |        8.06 |        8.83 |        9.45 |            9.66 |
|               29 | Karnataka                            |        6.71 |        7.05 |        6.94 |        6.87 |        7.06 |        7.31 |        5.68 |        5.66 |        6.51 |        6.57 |        7.21 |        7.29 |            7.59 |
|               30 | Goa                                  |        4.86 |        4.7  |        4.77 |        3.96 |        4.7  |        4.65 |        2.64 |        2.04 |        3.81 |        4.23 |        5.15 |        5.54 |            6.71 |
|               31 | Lakshadweep                          |        6.64 |        7.06 |        7.16 |        6.65 |        6.06 |        6.92 |        5.27 |        4.42 |        4.53 |        5.29 |        5.38 |        4.51 |            5.45 |
|               32 | Kerala                               |        6.65 |        6.28 |        5.98 |        5.39 |        5.51 |        6.07 |        4.06 |        3.11 |        2.87 |        3.37 |        3.7  |        3.87 |            4.27 |
|               33 | Tamil Nadu                           |        6.97 |        6.52 |        6.15 |        5.66 |        5.86 |        6.58 |        4.69 |        3.83 |        4.94 |        6.03 |        6.46 |        6.69 |            6.52 |
|               34 | Puducherry                           |        6.06 |       10.17 |       11    |       10.67 |       10.98 |       11.72 |        9.98 |       10.42 |       11.95 |        7.4  |        8.89 |        9.03 |            7.79 |
|               35 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands          |        6.73 |        6.96 |        7.1  |        5.75 |        4.08 |        4.5  |        5.8  |        6.17 |        6.03 |        8.23 |        7.09 |        6.85 |            6.39 |
|               36 | Telangana                            |        4.42 |        4.88 |        5.31 |        4.67 |        5.07 |        6.16 |        3.9  |        4.29 |        5.33 |        5.07 |        6.33 |        5.92 |            6.86 |

## Notes-

- P  : Provisional i.e. figures for January 2016 are provisional.
- -- : Indicates the receipt of price schedules for urban areas is less than 80% of allocated schedules, therefore, indices for urban sector and consequently for combined sector and the inflation rates, based thereon, have not been compiled.