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Low inflation index in September by 0.6% and Planning stresses: high annual inflation
2015/10/18
Baghdad
The Ministry of Planning, on Sunday, low inflation for the month of September, the index increased by 0.6% compared with August the previous year, as drawn to the high annual inflation index by 2.1%, pointed out that the price survey for the month mentioned did not include the three Iraqi provinces because of the security situation .
He said ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi said in a statement received (range Press), a copy of it, that "the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Ministry's inflation report for the month of September was completed in 2015 on the basis of field data collection on the prices of goods and services components of the consumer basket of selected sample of outlets in all governorates of Iraq, "noting that" these rates are calculated goods and services of food, rent, transportation, communications, health, education and other, which include the consumer is keeping from. "
He said al-Hindawi, that "the monthly inflation for the month of September fell by 0.6% from what it was in the month of August the previous year," asserting that "the annual inflation index rose by 2.1% as a result influenced by rising prices of food section and non-alcoholic beverages by 2.5% in September 2015 compared with the same month of last year, as well as high section housing prices by 3.2%. "
He Hindawi, that "the survey which was conducted during the month of September did not include the provinces of Nineveh, Salahuddin and Anbar because of the security situation witnessed in those provinces," pointing out that "the base inflation index fell during the month of September at a rate of 0.2% compared with August, which The previous rise by 1.7% for the month of September 2014 from last year. "
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