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Food Price Index: January 2008


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Highlights


  • Food prices rose 0.4 percent from December 2007 to January 2008.

 

  • Grocery food prices rose 1.3 percent.

 

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

 

  • Non-alcoholic beverage prices rose 0.9 percent.

 

  • Fruit and vegetable prices fell 0.7 percent.

 

 

  • Meat, poultry and fish prices fell 1.3 percent.

 

  • Food prices rose 4.4 percent for the year to January 2008.


Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
14 February 2008
ISSN 1178-0282

There is a companion Media Release published – Food Price Index: January 2008.

 



  Food Price Index: January 2008 (pdf)



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