Overall consumer prices in Hong Kong rose by 1.1 percent year-on-year in September, the same as that in August, according to official data released on Thursday.

Netting out the effects of all the special administration region government's one-off relief measures, underlying inflation in September was 1.0 percent, slightly smaller than the 1.1 percent recorded in the previous month, data from the Census and Statistics Department showed.  

On a seasonally adjusted basis, the average monthly rate of increase in the city’s Composite Consumer Price Index for the three-month period ending in September was 0.3 percent, the same as that for the three-month period ending in August.

Netting out the effects of all SAR government's one-off relief measures, the corresponding rates of increase were 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent.

A SAR government spokesman said that inflation remained modest in September, with the underlying Composite CPI increasing by 1.0 percent over a year earlier, broadly similar to the increases in recent months.

Price pressures across major components were also largely stable, he added.

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Increases in prices were recorded last month for transport (2.2 percent), alcoholic drinks and tobacco (2.0 percent), housing (1.7 percent), miscellaneous services (1.6 percent), meals out and takeaway food (1.2 percent), miscellaneous goods (0.4 percent), and electricity, gas and water (0.4 percent).

On the other hand, year-on-year decreases were recorded for clothing and footwear (-3.7 percent), and durable goods (-3.1 percent).

Looking ahead, overall inflation should stay modest in the near term, as domestic cost pressures remain contained and external price pressures are subdued, the spokesman said.