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Food Price Index: March 2008


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Highlights


  • Food prices rose 0.7 percent from February 2008 to March 2008.

 

  • Fruit and vegetable prices rose 3.1 percent, driven by higher prices for tomatoes.


  • Grocery food prices increased 0.4 percent.

 

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

 

  • Non-alcoholic beverage prices rose 1.4 percent.

 

  • Meat, poultry and fish prices fell 0.1 percent.

  

  • Food prices increased 6.0 percent for the year to March 2008.


Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
15 April 2008
ISSN 1178-0282

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

 



  Food Price Index: March 2008 (pdf)



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