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Food Price Index: August 2007


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Highlights


  • Food prices fell 0.1 percent from July 2007 to August 2007.

 

  • Fruit and vegetable prices fell 3.0 percent.

 

  • Non-alcoholic beverage prices fell 0.2 percent.

 

  • Grocery food prices rose 0.2 percent.

 

  • Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices rose 0.5 percent.

 

  • Meat, poultry and fish prices rose 1.1 percent.

 

  • Food prices rose 3.4 percent for the year to August 2007.

 

 

 


Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
12 September 2007
ISSN 1178-0282


There is a companion Media Release published – Food Price Index: August 2007.


 



  Food Price Index: August 2007 (pdf)



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