{"id":50380,"date":"2015-12-21T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50380"},"modified":"2015-12-21T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T15:24:47","slug":"sri-lanka-inflation-accelerates-to-4-8-pct-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/21\/sri-lanka-inflation-accelerates-to-4-8-pct-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka inflation accelerates to 4.8-pct in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-99006\" class=\"post-99006 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-economy tag-sri-lanka-inflation-accelerates-to-4-8-pct-in-november\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy LBO<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dec 21, 2015 (LBO) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer prices rose 4.8 percent in the 12-months to November from a year earlier, from the 3.0 percent a month earlier, data from the state statistics office showed.<\/p>\n<p>Year on year inflation of Food Group has increased from 2.3 percent in October 2015 to 4.6 percent in November while Non-food Group also increased by 3.5 percent to 4.9 percent during this period.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Census and Statistics commenced releasing this new price index called \u2018National Consumer Price Index\u2019 from last month.<\/p>\n<p>The national consumer basket includes 407 items which represent the consumption expenditure of all households in Sri Lanka and the base year is 2013.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Department has been releasing Colombo Consumer Price Index from June 2011, covering only the urban areas of Colombo district.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lankabusinessonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/National-consumer-index-november.jpg\" alt=\"National-consumer-index-november\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy LBO Dec 21, 2015 (LBO) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s consumer prices rose 4.8 percent in the 12-months to November from a year earlier, from the 3.0 percent a month earlier, data from the state statistics office showed. Year on year inflation of Food Group has increased from 2.3 percent in October 2015 to 4.6 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}