Compared to October, the CPI in November increased just 0.25 per cent, due to certain localities raising the cost of medical services and tuition fees while domestic rice prices continued upwards on the back of higher export prices. Figures show that core inflation in November rose 0.16 per cent over October and 3.15 per cent against November last year. On average, in the first eleven months of 2023, core inflation increased 4.27 per cent year-on-year; higher than the average CPI increase of 3.22 per cent. The main reason is that average domestic gasoline prices fell by 12.12 per cent in the first eleven months of 2023 year-on-year and gas prices 7.5 per cent. These restrained CPI growth, but neither gasoline nor gas are used to measure core inflation.