According to information released by the General Statistics Office, increased food prices and increased electricity prices were the main reasons for the CPI in June increasing by 0.27% compared to the previous month.
The increase in electricity prices is one of the main reasons for the increase in the consumer price index.
In the 0.27% increase in CPI in June compared to the previous month, there were 10 groups of goods and services with increased price indexes: food and catering services (0.57%); food, entertainment and tourism (0.34%); household equipment and appliances (0.19%); transportation (0.16%); housing and construction materials (0.07%)...
The average CPI in the second quarter of this year increased by 2.41% compared to the same period last month. Of which, housing and construction materials increased by 6.03%;education increased by 5.81%; food and catering services increased by 3.51%;…
The average CPI in the first 6 months of 2023 increased by 3.29% compared to the average of the period of 2022, mainly due to: the average price index of the education group in the first 6 months of the year increased by 7.95% compared to the same period last year due to some localities increasing tuition fees; the price index of the housing and construction materials group increased by 6.6% compared to the same period last year due to the increase in prices of cement, iron, steel, and sand following the increase in input materials and housing rental prices; household electricity prices increased by 3.12% due to increased electricity demand and EVN's decision to increase electricity prices by 3%, applied from the beginning of May.
Some factors contributed to curbing the CPI growth rate in the first 6 months of 2023: on average in the first 6 months of the year, kerosene prices decreased by 8.94% compared to the same period last year; domestic gasoline prices decreased by 18.27% following fluctuations in world prices (causing the general CPI to decrease by 0.66 percentage points); domestic gas prices decreased by 9.99% following world prices (causing the CPI to decrease by 0.15 percentage points); the price index of the postal and telecommunications group decreased by 0.37% due to the decrease in prices of old-generation phones...
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