24-44  Consumer Price Indices (Oct. 1999 - Sep. 2000=100)
Item	Weight	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Composite Consumer Price Index
All Items	100.00	99.4	97.8	94.8	92.4	92.0
Food	26.67	99.7	98.9	96.8	95.4	96.4
Meals Bought away from Home	[16.39]	99.9	99.6	98.2	96.7	96.9
Food, Excluding Meals Bought away from Home	[10.28]	99.4	97.7	94.7	93.1	95.4
Housing①	29.91	98.5	95.5	90.0	85.7	81.3
Private Housing Rent	[24.59]	98.2	95.3	89.2	83.5	78.0
Public Housing Rent	[2.07]	99.8	91.6	89.1	97.3	99.7
Electricity, Gas and Water	2.98	100.7	98.7	91.9	93.1	103.8
Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco	0.94	100.1	103.4	105.9	106.0	106.0
Clothing and Footwear	4.13	97.9	93.4	94.1	91.6	97.5
Durable Goods	6.24	98.7	91.7	85.9	80.4	78.6
Miscellaneous Goods	5.70	100.5	101.8	103.6	106.0	109.7
Transport	9.01	100.3	100.7	100.1	99.6	100.0
Miscellaneous Services②	14.42	99.9	100.4	98.1	95.0	94.7
Educational Services	[3.67]	100.4	102.0	103.5	104.2	104.8
Telephone and Other Communications Services	[3.27]	98.6	97.5	86.0	74.6	67.8
Medical Services	[1.71]	100.2	101.1	101.7	103.1	104.0
Consumer Price Index (A)
All Items	100.00	99.5	97.8	94.7	92.7	92.6
Food	31.88	99.7	98.6	96.4	94.9	96.2
Meals Bought away from Home	[17.94]	99.9	99.4	97.8	96.4	96.9
Food, Excluding Meals Bought away from Home	[13.94]	99.4	97.6	94.7	93.0	95.4
Housing①	29.13	98.8	95.2	89.8	87.1	83.5
Private Housing Rent	[21.76]	98.4	95.5	89.0	83.7	78.4
Public Housing Rent	[5.08]	99.8	91.6	89.1	97.3	99.7
Electricity, Gas and Water	3.99	100.7	98.0	90.0	91.2	103.3
Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco	1.50	100.1	103.7	106.2	106.3	106.3
Clothing and Footwear	3.36	97.6	93.4	95.9	93.0	98.0
Durable Goods	4.96	98.7	91.9	86.4	80.9	79.6
Miscellaneous Goods	5.25	100.9	103.6	104.7	105.9	108.0
Transport	8.23	100.2	100.7	100.1	99.1	98.9
Miscellaneous Services②	11.70	99.7	100.3	97.0	93.4	92.8
Educational Services	[3.35]	100.3	101.8	103.1	103.7	104.2
Telephone and Other Communications Services	[3.94]	98.6	98.3	87.3	76.3	69.7
Medical Services	[1.27]	100.2	101.5	101.5	104.4	105.4
Consumer Price Index (B)
All Items	100.00	99.4	97.7	94.7	92.1	91.7
Food	25.94	99.7	98.8	96.7	95.1	96.1
Meals Bought away from Home	[17.20]	99.9	99.2	97.4	95.8	96.3
Food, Excluding Meals Bought away from Home	[8.74]	99.4	97.8	95.3	93.6	95.8
Housing①	29.68	98.5	95.8	90.1	85.6	80.8
Private Housing Rent	[25.48]	98.3	95.5	89.2	83.8	78.3
Public Housing Rent	[1.03]	99.8	91.6	89.1	97.3	99.7
Electricity, Gas and Water	2.81	100.7	99.0	92.4	93.7	103.8
Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco	0.86	100.1	103.5	106.0	106.1	106.1
Clothing and Footwear	4.47	97.9	93.7	95.5	92.9	98.7
Durable Goods	6.93	98.5	91.0	85.1	79.5	77.7
Miscellaneous Goods	5.58	100.5	101.8	103.2	105.4	108.9
Transport	9.05	100.3	100.6	100.1	99.6	100.2
Miscellaneous Services②	14.68	99.9	100.4	98.1	95.2	95.1
Educational Services	[3.82]	100.3	101.7	103.0	103.7	104.1
Telephone and Other Communications Services	[3.36]	98.8	97.6	85.6	73.5	66.1
Medical Services	[1.74]	100.2	101.5	102.1	103.5	105.2
Consumer Price Index (C)
All Items	100.00	99.3	97.8	95.1	92.3	91.5
Food	21.38	99.8	99.6	97.9	96.7	97.0
Meals Bought away from Home	[13.28]	99.9	100.7	100.4	99.2	98.4
Food, Excluding Meals Bought away from Home	[8.10]	99.6	97.8	93.8	92.5	94.8
Housing①	31.22	98.2	95.5	90.2	84.4	79.3
Private Housing Rent	[26.67]	97.9	94.9	89.2	82.9	77.1
Electricity, Gas and Water	2.02	100.6	99.9	94.9	96.3	104.6
Alcoholic Drinks and Tobacco	0.39	100.2	101.8	104.1	104.7	104.7
Clothing and Footwear	4.55	98.2	93.1	90.4	88.2	95.0
Durable Goods	6.73	98.8	92.4	86.7	81.2	79.0
Miscellaneous Goods	6.43	100.1	100.2	103.0	106.8	112.6
Transport	9.94	100.5	100.7	99.8	100.2	100.8
Miscellaneous Services②	17.34	100.1	100.3	98.9	96.0	95.7
Educational Services	[3.81]	100.5	102.6	104.6	105.5	106.4
Telephone and Other Communications Services	[2.32]	98.2	95.9	84.4	73.3	67.5
Medical Services	[2.19]	100.2	100.4	101.3	101.5	101.6
Notes: The weights are derived from the results of the 1999/2000 Household Expenditure Survey.
①Apart from "Private Housing Rent" and "Public Housing Rent", the "Housing" section also includes "Management Fee and Other Housing
Charges" and "Tools and Materials for House Maintenance".  For CPI(C), the "Housing" section does not include "Public Housing Rent".
②"Miscellaneous Services" section includes "Educational Services", "Telephone and Other Communications Services", "Medical Services"
and other miscellaneous services.