7. Taking the first eleven months of 2005 together, the Composite CPI rose by 1.0 percent from a year earlier. Concurrently, the CPI(A), CPI(B) and CPI(C) rose by 1.1 percent, 1.1 percent and 0.9 percent respectively.
8. For the 3 months ended November 2005, the Composite CPI rose by 1.7 percent from a year earlier. The corresponding increases in the CPI(A), CPI(B) and CPI(C) were 1.6 percent, 1.8 percent and 1.8 percent.
9. For the 12 months ended November 2005, the Composite CPI was on average 1.0 percent higher than in the preceding 12-month period. The corresponding increases in the CPI(A), CPI(B) and CPI(C) were 1.1 percent, 1.0 percent and 0.8 percent.
10. A Government Secretariat spokesman noted that consumer price inflation remained benign in November.
Although there was a progressive feed-through of the earlier rebound in private housing rentals, prices of non-housing items taken together only showed a modest increase.
The continued expansion in production capacity brought about by rising productivity and the ease-back in oil prices will to a certain extent help contain inflation pressures in the economy in the coming months.
Census & Statistics Department, Hong Kong
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