Domestic price pressures, which have were largely muted last year have started to inch up following the recent increase in fuel prices.
The year on year Food and Non-Alcoholic beverages stood at 7,58 percent whilst the Non-food inflation rate was at 0,91 percent.
The month on month inflation rate was at 0.95% gaining 0.08 percentage points. The month on month Food and Non Alcoholic Beverages inflation stood at 1.40 percent gaining 1.08 percentage points on January of 0.32%. The month on month non-flood inflation stood at 0.72% gaining 0.78 percentage points on the January rate of -0.06 percent.
The CPI for the month ending February stood at 101.0 compared to 100.1 in January 2013.
The CPI was changed in January through the use of Individual Consumption by Purpose . This resulted in the creation of a new classification which came up with 83 classes compared to 68 in the old calculation. The number of items in the basket has also increased to 495 from 495
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