CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
2nd Quarter 2010
Highlights
1. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which stood at 118.8 in March 2010, registered a net increase of 1.1 points (or 0.9%) to reach 119.9 in June 2010.
2. The main reasons for the net increase in the CPI from March to June 2010
were:
-
higher prices of some food items such as dairy products and pulses;
- higher prices of motor vehicles;
- higher prices of gasolene and diesel; and
- lower prices of rice, fish and vegetables.
3. The headline inflation rate for calendar year 2009 (as measured by the
percentage change in the average CPI for 2009 relative to 2008) was 2.5% while
that for financial year 2009/10 was 1.7%.
July
2010
More: CONSUMER
PRICE INDEX - 2nd Quarter 2010
Introduction
Table 2 - Monthly Consumer Price Index, January 2003 - June 2010
Table 3 - Main commodities that affected the CPI between March and June 2010
Table 4 : Monthly sub-indices by division of consumption expenditure, January 2010 - June 2010
Table 5 - Monthly CPI by division and group of consumption expenditure, July 2009 - June 2010
Table 6 - Inflation rate (%), 1990 - 2010
Annex
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