CPI is the measure of changes in the price level of a basket of consumer goods and services bought by households

Components of CPI

(in descending order of their weightage)

NOTE: CPI (Rural) Housing will not be compiled.

Subgroups (decreasing order)

Food and beverages

Miscellaneous

Housing

Fuel and light

Clothing and footwear

Pan, tobacco and intoxicants

Cereals and products

Milk and products

Vegetables

Prepared meals, snacks, sweets etc.

Meat and fish

Oils and fats

Spices

Pulses and products

Fruits

Sugar and Confectionery

Non-alcoholic beverages

Egg

Transport

Medi care

Household requisites

Education

Recreation

Types of CPI

CPI Type	Its components	Released by	Remarks
CPI Headline Inflation/CPI All/CPI Combined	Food & beverages; Misc (Tran, Edu, Health etc.); Housing; Fuel and Light; Clothing & footwear; Pan, tobacco, etc.	CSO	RBI targets this.
CPI Food Inflation / Consumer Food Price Index	Cereals & its products; Pulses & its products; Egg, Meat, Fish; Milk & its products; Fruits & Vegetables; Sugar & Confectionaries ; Spices	CSO
CPI Core inflation	non-food and non-fuel group [Housing; Pan, tobacco; Clothing & Footwear; Health; Education; Transport & Communication; Others]	CSO
CPI-Rural (CPI-R)		CSO
CPI-Rural Labourers (CPI-RL)		Labor Bureau
CPI- Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL)		Labor Bureau
CPI-Industrial Workers (CPI-IW)		Labor Bureau	Govt employees pay decided on this
CPI-Urban Non Manual Employees (CPI-UNME)		Stopped now

Services covered partially in CPI (Ex: Health, Education)
Wage indices - Three - CPI RL, CPI AL, CPI IW - all are by Labour Bureau
Structural factors like skewed MSP policy, distortions by APMC acts, inadequate cold storage facilities also causes food inflation