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Food Price Index: July 2008


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Highlights


In July 2008 compared with June 2008:

  • Food prices rose 0.6 percent.

 

  • Fruit and vegetable prices rose 3.6 percent.

  

  • Grocery food prices rose 0.5 percent.

     

  • Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices rose 0.6 percent.

     
  • Non-alcoholic beverage prices rose 0.4 percent

 

  • Meat, poultry and fish prices fell 1.0 percent

 

 From July 2007 to July 2008:

  • Food prices increased 7.6 percent.


The Food Price Index basket has been updated and reweighted. See the commentary section and table 4 in the tables section for details.





Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
25 August 2008
ISSN 1178-0282

See also Food Price Index: July 2008 – Media release.

 



  Food Price Index: July 2008 (pdf)



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