Consumer Price Index – Industrial Workers (August, 2023)
CPI-IW (August, 2023)
| Who releases? | The Labour Bureau
(an attached office of the M/o Labour & Employment) |
| Frequency? | every month
(on the basis of retail prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the country) |
| Base Year | 2016 = 100 |
The All-India CPI-IW for August, 2023 decreased by 0.5 points and stood at 139.2 (one hundred thirty nine point two). On 1-month percentage change, it decreased by 0.36 per cent with respect to previous month compared to increase of 0.23 per cent recorded between corresponding months a year ago.
Year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 6.91 per cent compared to 7.54 per cent for the previous month and 5.85 per cent during the corresponding month a year before. Similarly, Food inflation stood at 10.06 per cent against 11.87 per cent of the previous month and 6.46 per cent during the corresponding month a year ago.
