In March a monthly variation was registered of 0.33%, mainly due to the behavior of prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages.
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Consumer Price Index in Honduras
Al March 31st, 2018
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From the monthly report by the Central Bank of Honduras:
In the third month of this year, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly growth of 0.33%; in addition, annual inflation was 3.94% and cumulative inflation was 1.65% (2.48% and 1.05% in March 2016, respectively). Click to interact with graphicsClick to interact with graphics
The items that contributed the most to the behavior of monthly inflation were "Food and non-alcoholic beverages" with 0.12 percentage points (pp), followed by "Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels" with 0.11 pp, and to a lesser extent "Hotels, cafes and restaurants" with 0.07 pp, "Furniture and items for household maintenance", "Health" and "Personal Care" with 0.02 percentage points each, and "Clothing and footwear" and "Recreation and Culture" with 0.01 pp each.
Finally, having negative (0.04 percentage points) shares was the category "Transport", which partially offset the inflationary rate.
In March, the consumer price index recorded a monthly variation of 0.35%, due to an increase in the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, and transportation.
From a report by the Central Bank of Honduras:
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly increase of 0.35% in March of this year, explained largely by a price increase in some products, such as the Kwh rate for residential electric power, housing rental and certain foods.[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
In September, monthly variation was 0.32%, and inflation accumulated in the first nine months of the year closed at 2.7%.
From a report by the Central Bank of Nicaragua:
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly variation of 0.32 percent (-0.30% in September 2016), mainly explained by the behavior of prices in some goods and services in the divisions of Transport (2.04%); Accommodation, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (1.15%); and Restaurants and hotels (0.33%), which together contributed 0.293 percentage points to the variation observed.In contrast, the category of Food and non-alcoholic beverages showed a variation of -0.21 percent (-0.071pp).[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graphics"]
In August, the monthly variation was 0.33%, mainly explained by the behavior of fuel prices and rent for housing.
From a report by the Central Bank of Honduras:
In July of this year, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly increase of 0.33% (0.14% in August 2016); explained mainly by increase of prices registered in fuels, rent of housing and certain foods.[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graphics"]
The monthly variation in March was 0.12%, mainly explained by the behavior of prices of various goods and services and furniture and household items.
From a report by the Central Bank of Nicaragua:
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a monthly variation of 0.12 percent (0.63% in March 2016), mainly explained by the behavior of prices of some goods and services in the divisions of miscellaneous goods and services (0.40%) Furniture, household items and routine household maintenance (0.31%) and Health (0.36%), which together contributed 0.068 percentage points to the observed variation.In contrast, in the division of Housing, water electricity, gas and other fuels there was a variation of -0.19 percent (-0.017pp).[GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graphics"]