In February prices increased by 0.20%, driven by the food, goods and services and housing sectors.
Of the twelve divisions of expenses making up the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the sectors of food, goods and services, and housing were those that contributed the most to the inflation seen in February.
From information published by the National Statistics Institute (INE):
The general level of Consumer Price Index registered a monthly variation of -0.03%, an interanual variation of 4.15% and a cumulative variation of 3.60%.
From information published by the National Statistics Institute (INE):
The most important results of October 2013 are as follows: there was a monthly variation of -0.03%, 4.15% yoy and 3.60% cumulative.
The general level of the Consumer Price Index registered a monthly variation of 0.14%, an internannual variation of 4.42% and a cumulative variation of 3.33%.
From information published by the National Statistics Institute (INE):
The overall and most important results, of August 2013 are as follows: there was a monthly variation of 0.14%, an interannual variation of 4.42% and a cumulative variation of 3.33%.
The Consumer Price Index closed at 0.30% in July, with a rise of 3.19%.
From information published by the National Statistics Institute (INE):
The overall, most important results of July 2013 are as follows: there was a monthly variation of 0.30%, an interannual variation of 4.74% and cumulative variation of 3.19% .
The cumulative variation (3.19%) and interannual variation (4.74%) recorded an acceleration compared to that observed in July 2012 (1.91%) and (2.86%) respectively, while the monthly variation(0.30 %) shows a slowdown compared to that observed in July 2012 (0.35%).
The general level of the consumer price index in April had a variation of 0.17% compared with the index for the month of March.
From information published by the National Statistics Institute (INE):
The overall results, the most important from April 2013 are as follows: there was a monthly variation of 0.17%, an interannual variation of 4.13% and a cumulative variation of 1.97%.
The Foundation for the Development of Guatemala has analyzed the main economic indicators of the country, and the main variables affecting the exchange rate, inflation and the CPI.
ECONOMIC BULLETIN NOVEMBER 2012
Monthly report of the main indicators of the national economy
Inflation up slightly in October
During the first ten months of the year (January-October), the country registered inflation of 2.90%, while the inter annual variation* of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 3.35%, down by 3.3 percentage points compared to October last year (6.65%), marking the second month of increases after eight consecutive months of declines (see chart 1). Meanwhile, the monthly variation was 0.03%, 0.07 percentage points higher than in the same month of 2011 when it reached 0.07%. The annual variation figure is below the range of the inflation target set by the Monetary Board for 2012, of between 3.5% and 5.5%.
In September 2012, the Consumer Price Index in Guatemala recorded an intermonthly variation of 0.49%, an annual variation of 3.28% and cumulative variation of 2.87%.
From the Executive Report of the IPC September Report by the National Statistics Institute of Guatemala (INE):
This monthly report contains the main results of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the National Statistics Institute INE.
The monthly report by the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala has been released, with the main indicators of the national economy.
Inflation Continues to Fall in August
During the first seven months of the year (January-August), the country accumulated inflation of 2.36%, while the interannual variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a variation of 2.71%, down 4.92 percentage points compared to August last year (7.63%), continuing the downward trend that began in January.
The consumer price index shows for the month of January a variation of 5.44%, reported the Institute of Statistics and Censuses.
The consumer price index (CPI) measures the average change in prices of a group of goods and services corresponding to the most important items among households expenses (ENIGFAM 2009-2010). This index is based on a comparison with December 2010.
In the first quarter of the year inflation reached 3.17%.
The CPI in April 2011 showed a value of 103.17, the previous month’s figure was 102.52, making the monthly variation 0.63%, this variation is less than the previous month (0.92%).
Expenditure groups that made the most impact on the CPI in April 2011 were foods, nonalcoholic beverages, housing, water, electricity, gas, other fuels and transportation.
As of March, consumer prices showed a variation of -0.25%, according to data from the Institute of Statistics(INE).
The values recorded in the past four months indicate that the economy is showing signs of deflation (-0.38% in December, -0.42% in January, -0.60% in February and -0.25% in March), explained Luis Arroyo, director of the INE.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) positioned itself at -0.60%, leaving behind the -0.42% recorded in January
Jessica Gramajo wrote in the Siglo 21 website: "While some economic analysts believe that this behavior could lead to deflation, others indicate that this situation is still far from being the case. Luis Arroyo, director of the Department of Statistics at the National Statistical Institute (INE), stated that the whole world is going through a similar situation, a product of the existing recession; mainly in industrialized countries like the United States and Japan "