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Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI)

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Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) is a measure of change in retail prices of food products consumed by a defined population group in a given area with reference to a base year. 

The Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) started releasing Consumer Food Price Indices (CFPI) for three categories -rural, urban and combined - separately on an all India basis with effect from May, 2014.

Like Consumer Price Index (CPI), the CFPI is also calculated on a monthly basis and methodology remains the same as CPI. The base year presently used is 2012. The CSO revised the Base Year of the CPI and CFPI from 2010=100 to 2012=100 with effect from the release of indices for the month of January 2015.

CFPI (Rural/ Urban/ Combined) is compiled as the weighted average of the Cereals and Products sub group of CPI for each of those categories - Rural/ Urban/ Combined. Modified weights of these Sub-groups within CFPI are as follows:

All India Weights of different Sub-groups within Consumer Food Price Index

Sub­groups Description Rural Urban Combined
a. Cereals and products 36.71 28.51 34.16
b. Pulses and products 6.25 6.11 6.20
c. Oils and fats 8.98 9.44 9.13
d. Egg, fish and meat 6.50 7.38 6.77
e. Milk and products 16.53 21.59 18.10
f. Condiments and spices 4.10 3.79 4.00
g. Vegetables 12.64 12.93 12.74
h. Fruits 3.65 6.14 4.43
i. Sugar etc. 4.64 4.11 4.47
  Total Weights 100.00 100.00 100.00


Inflation rates (on point to point basis i.e. August, 2014 over August, 2013), based on general Indices and CFPIs, are issued by CSO.

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 being maintained by the National Informatics Centre.

Globally, food price index is being released by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The FAO Food Price Index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities. It consists of the average of five commodity group price indices (Cereal, Vegetable Oil, Dairy, Meat and Sugar) weighted with the average export shares of each of the groups for 2002-2004.



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