| Inflation Rate Based on Whole Prices (Point to Point Base) in Tamil Nadu (1996-97 & 1997-98) | |||||
| Group/Sub-Group/ Commodity | Weight | Percentage Increase | Weighted Contribution (%) | ||
| 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | ||
| All Commodities | |||||
| Primary Articles | |||||
| Food Articles | |||||
| Foodgrains | |||||
| Cereals | |||||
| Rice | |||||
| Wheat | |||||
| Jowar | |||||
| Pulses | |||||
| Arhar | |||||
| Bengalgram | |||||
| Fruits&Vegetables | |||||
| Vegetables | |||||
| Potatoes | |||||
| Onions | |||||
| Fruits | |||||
| Milk | |||||
| Egg, Fish & Meat | |||||
| Condiments & Spices | |||||
| Other Food articles | |||||
| Tea | |||||
| Coffee | |||||
| Non-food articles | |||||
| Fibres | |||||
| Raw cotton | |||||
| Raw wool | |||||
| Oil seeds | |||||
| Groundnuts | |||||
| Gingelly | |||||
| Other Non-food articles | |||||
| Sugarcane | |||||
| Minerals | |||||
| Fuels, Power, Light & Lubricants | |||||
| Coal Mining | |||||
| Mineral oils | |||||
| Kerosene | |||||
| Petrol | |||||
| Diesel oil | |||||
| Electricity | |||||
| Manufactured Products | |||||
| Food Products | |||||
| Dairy Products | |||||
| Grain Mill Products | |||||
| Maida | |||||
| Suij | |||||
| Bakery Products | |||||
| Sugar | |||||
| Edible oil | |||||
| Groundnut oil | |||||
| Gingelly oil | |||||
| Oil cakes | |||||
| Other mis. Food Products | |||||
| Beverages, tobacco & Products | |||||
| Textiles | |||||
| Cotton Textiles | |||||
| Silk, art silk & synthetic Tex. | |||||
| Paper & paper Products | |||||
| Leather & leather Products | |||||
| Rubber & rubber Products | |||||
| Tyres | |||||
| Tubes | |||||
| Chemical & chemical Products | |||||
| Fertilisers | |||||
| Paints & varnishes | |||||
| Drugs & medicines | |||||
| Non-metallic mineral Products | |||||
| Bricks | |||||
| Cement | |||||
| Basic metals, alloys & metal Products | |||||
| Machinery & transport equip . | |||||
| Machinery & machine tool | |||||
| Non-electrical tools | |||||
| Electrical tools | |||||
| Transport equipment | |||||
| Motor vehical & parts | |||||
| Motorcycles, bicycles Pt | |||||
| Motor cycles | |||||
| Cycles | |||||
| Miscellaneous Products | |||||
| House service meters | |||||
| Pencils | |||||
