A number of attempts have so far been made to construct state-specific consumer price indices relative to the entire country. However, none of these has been able to exhaust the entire consumption basket. Nor do the constructed indices relate to various fractile income/expenditure groups of the...

This paper undertakes construction of state-specific, rural consumer price indices. The related all-India consumer price indices are a natural byproduct of this exercise. The all-India rural cost of living indices have been worked out for food, non- food and all consumer items taken together...

After reviewing the available data sets and price deflators used by the Planning Commission for estimation of poverty, this paper constructs some new consumer price indices which are considered more appropriate for updating the base year poverty lines. Three major factors, which crucially affect...