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Food Price Index: October 2007


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Highlights


  • Food prices rose 0.6 percent from September 2007 to October 2007.

 

  • Grocery food prices rose 1.5 percent.

 

  • Non-alcoholic beverage prices rose 1.6 percent.

 

  • Meat, poultry and fish prices rose 0.4 percent.

 

  • Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices rose 0.2 percent.

 

  • Fruit and vegetable prices fell 1.5 percent.

 

  • Food prices rose 3.6 percent for the year to October 2007.

 


Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
13 November 2007
ISSN 1178-0282

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

 



  Food Price Index: October 2007 (pdf)



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