The item having the highest weight in consumer price index for industrial workers is:

• food

• housing

• clothing

A consumer price index measures changes in:

• retail prices

•  whole sale prices

• production prices

The impact of change in the price of a commodity with little weight in the index will be:

• small

• large

• uncertain

In most of the weighted index numbers the weight pertains to:

•  base year

• current year

• both base and current year

As index number which accounts for the relative importance of the items is knwon as:

• weighted Index

• simple aggregative Index

• simple average of relatives