REVISED WEIGHTS : CPI

The government of India revised the base year of the All India Consumer Price Index series from 2010: 100 to 2012: 100 starting with the January 2015 reading. The first date based on the revised series was released on February 12, 2015. The weights of the sub-components with in the new CPI basket are based on the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) of 2011-12, against the old/current basket individual weights based on CES of 2004-05. Revised weights of different groups of commodities are given in the following table:

	Revised Series of CPI (Base CES 2011-12)
Groups	Rural	Urban	Combined
Food and Beverages Pan, Tobacco and Intoxicants Clothing and Footwear Housing Fuel and Light Miscellaneous	54.18 3.26 7.36 7.94 27.26	36.29 1.36 5.57 21.67 5.58 29.53	45.86 2.38 6.53 10.07 6.84 28.32
Total	100.00	100.00	100.00