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Food Price Index: December 2007


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Highlights


  • Food prices rose 0.9 percent from November 2007 to December 2007.

 

  • Grocery food prices rose 1.4 percent.

 

  •  Fruit and vegetable prices rose 2.6 percent.

 

  • Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices rose 0.4 percent.

 

  • Non-alcoholic beverage prices rose 1.0 percent.

 

  • Meat, poultry and fish prices fell 0.6 percent.

 

  • Food prices rose 5.4 percent for the year to December 2007.
 
 

Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
17 January 2008
ISSN 1178-0282

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

 



  Food Price Index: December 2007 (pdf)



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