Consumer Price Index (CPI)


Annual and Monthly Average Price of Selected Imported Items

  Unit Annual averages Monthly averages
2005 2006 2007 Jan08 Feb08 Mar08 Apr08 May08
FOOD GROUP                  
Fruit and Vegetables                  
 Potatoes kg 2.59 2.44 3.10 3.12 2.74 3.33 3.79 3.56
 Onions kg 2.19 2.49 3.03 3.31 3.31 3.31 3.26 2.95
 Apples kg 6.18 6.48 8.33 9.03 9.88 9.88 9.70 9.93
 Oranges kg 8.5 8.60 10.81 13.2 14.70 14.70 14.45 15.77
Meat, Fish & Poultry                  
 Mutton Flaps kg 5.19 5.10 6.32 7.42 7.48 7.28 7.28 7.10
 Chicken pieces kg 3.89 3.51 4.39 4.72 4.92 5.05 4.28 4.89
Other Food                  
 Flour kg 1.27 1.27 1.46 1.60 1.70 1.73 1.75 1.98
 Sugar kg 1.22 1.34 1.45 1.47 1.53 1.53 4.86 1.55
HOUSE GROUP                  
House Maintenance Goods                  
 Reinforcing steel each 15.17 15.81 16.38 16.99 16.99 16.99 18.39 18.64
 Corrugated iron 1' 4.27 4.19 4.63 4.71 4.54 4.66 4.65 4.67
TOBACCO, ALCOHOL & KAVA                  
Tobacco                  
 Winfield Blue packet 8.36 7.39 7.83 8.46 8.58 8.55 8.37 8.50
 Port Royal Tobacco packet 11.93 11.89 12.33 12.94 13.14 12.94 12.94 13.03
TRANSPORT GROUP                  
Private transportation                  
 Petrol litre 1.89 2.33 2.37 2.91 2.91 2.86 2.88 2.98
 Diesel litre 1.96 2.35 2.41 3.05 3.08 2.94 2.96 3.23

Source: Consumer Price Index (CPI) monthly report, Statistics Department.

Note: Some differences may be due to decimal points round-off.

For more detail information on Selected Imported items please see Key Stats Excel work book.

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