The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) published today (March 25) the March 2022 issue of the "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics" (HKMDS).

     Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains a feature article entitled "Consumer Price Index and Its Movements during 2012 to 2021".

"Consumer Price Index and Its Movements during 2012 to 2021"

     The year-on-year rate of change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is frequently quoted as the indicator of inflation. This feature article analyses the movements of consumer prices in the period 2012 to 2021.

     The annual rates of increase in the CPI maintained at around 4% to 5% during 2012 to 2014, then started to moderate since 2015. Despite the annual rates of increase in the CPI picked up slightly in 2018 and 2019, it eased again in 2020 under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, the annual rate of increase in the CPI picked up slightly.

     Apart from presenting the movements of the overall indices in the past decade, this feature article also analyses price changes at various commodity/service section levels.

     For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Consumer Price Index Section, C&SD (Tel: 3903 7370; email: cpi@censtatd.gov.hk).

     Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1010002&scode=460).

     Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Dissemination Section (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk).

Ends/Friday, March 25, 2022
Issued at HKT 16:00

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