date:Apr 16, 2013
prices
The report found that real growth of food and liquor expenditure (expenditure deflated by the consumer price index, which is the variation in prices paid by households for food items) was only 1.8 per cent in 2011-12, well below the average of the previous 20 years of 3.4 per cent.
According to the report, this lower growth figure reflects the lower expenditure in the takeaway food sector, which would have brought the overall figure down despite relatively strong growth in the liquor a