{"id":31698,"date":"2017-10-20T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=31698"},"modified":"2017-10-20T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:54:55","slug":"consumer-price-index-goes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/consumer-price-index-goes-up","title":{"rendered":"Stats Dept: Consumer Price Index Rises 4.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Malaysian Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 4.3% to 120.3 on a year-on-year basis in September 2017, from 115.5 previously.<\/p>\n
The Department of Statistics Malaysia said several major indices had recorded increases, including food and non-alcoholic beverages (+4.6%), restaurants and hotels (+2.6%), health (+2.5%), furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance (+2.8%) and housing, water, electricity, gas & other fuels (+2.4%).<\/p>\n
Also seeing a significant increase is transport at 15.8% on a year-on-year\u00a0basis in September 2017, following the\u00a011.7% rise in August 2017.<\/p>\n
Zooming into the food and non-alcoholic beverages index \u2013 which accounted for 30.2% in CPI weights \u2013 the increase was driven by food sub-group index which comprised of Oils and Fats (+39.6%), Fish & Seafood (+8.0%), Vegetables (+4.8%) and Fruits (+3.9%).<\/p>\n
As for Food Away From Home index, it continued to rise in September 2017, an increase of 5.1%.<\/p>\n