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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1990
HOWEVER,
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE BASE OF COMPARISON IN JULY 1989 IS RELATIVELY LOW.
INCREASE WERE
11.0 PER
JUNE
AND
1989
DURING 1989, THE HIGHEST RATES OF YEAR-ON-YEAR RECORDED FOR THE MONTHS OF MAY AND JUNE (10.6 PER CENT AND CENT
IF THE THREE MONTHS OF MAY, RESPECTIVELY FOR CPI(A)). JULY ARE TAKEN TOGETHER, THE YEAR-ON-YEAR INCREASES OF 1990 OVER ARE 9.2 PER CENT FOR CPI(A) AND 9.4 PER CENT FOR CPI(B).
AND
FOR THE PERIOD OF JANUARY TO JULY THIS YEAR, THE AVERAGE CPI(A)
CPI(B) BOTH INCREASED BY AVERAGE CORRESPONDING PERIOD OF LAST YEAR.
9.3
PER CENT
OVER
THE
THE DRINKS
AND
IN
ALCOHOLIC VEHICLES,
ON A YEAR-ON-YEAR COMPARISON, THE FASTER RATES OF INCREASE CPI (A) IN JULY 1990 WERE RECORDED IN THE INDEXES FOR
TOBACCO (FOR HOME CONSUMPTION), TRANSPORT AND SERVICES AND FOODSTUFFS AT 18.4 PER CENT, 14.2 PER CENT, 11.7 PER CENT AND 9.5 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
IN
AND 9.8
THE CORRESPONDING RATES OF INCREASE FOR THE SAME COMPONENTS THE CPI (B) WERE 18.2 PER CENT, 14.7 PER CENT, 11.7 PER CENT PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
THESE FOUR COMPONENTS TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT THREE CENT QUARTERS OF THE OVERALL INCREASE IN THE CPI(A) AND ABOUT 70 PER OF THE INCREASE IN THE CPI(B).
COMPARING JULY 1990 WITH JUNE 1990, THE CPI(A) INCREASED BY 0.5 PER CENT AND THE CPI(B), BY 0.6 PER CENT, LARGELY BECAUSE OF EATING PLACES, CHARGES FOR MEALS IN RESTAURANTS AND OTHER PRICES OF FRESH VEGETABLES AND HIGHER RENTS FOR SOME PRIVATE UNITS.
HIGHER
HIGHER
HOUSING
THE AVERAGE CPI(A) AND AVERAGE CPI (B) FOR THE 12 MONTHS JULY 1990, AT 136.3 AND 135.8 RESPECTIVELY, WERE 9.6 PER CENT AND PER CENT RESPECTIVELY HIGHER THAN THE AVERAGE FOR THE 12 MONTHS JULY 1989.
ENDED 9.5
ENDED
DURING
SEASONALLY
THE THREE-MONTH PERIOD ENDED JULY 1990, THE ADJUSTED CPI(A) INCREASED AT AN AVERAGE RATE OF 0.7 PER CENT PER MONTH AND THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED CPI(B), AT 0.8 PER CENT PER MONTH.
CHANGES
THE NINE IN THE INDEXES FOR JULY 1990 IN RESPECT OF COMMODITY/SERVICE SECTIONS IN THE TWO CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES, AS COMPARED WITH JUNE 1990 AND JULY 1989, ARE GIVEN BELOW.
/(OCTOBER 1984