CPI up 3.9% in Jan
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:02
The CPI in January of the city went up by 3.9% on the previous month, of which new prices rising factors in this month constitutes 2.2 percentage points and the carryover effect of last month’s prices 1.7 percentage points, according to the CPI data released by National Bureau of Statistics in Ningbo.
Among eight categories analyzed, the prices of six categories went up and two went down, of which, food prices rose by 14.0%, meaning 4.0 percentage points growth in the overall price level; the prices of the rest categories basically offset one another. Among them, prices for household facilities, articles and maintenance services surged 5.1% month-on-month; health care and personal articles, rose by 3.8%; tobacco and liquor, up 1.6%; residences, grew by 0.5%; transportation and communication, increased by 0.3%; clothing, down by 1.2%, and the prices of recreation, education, cultural articles and services declined by 5.1%
