Editor: SZ | AA Saturday 12 May 2012 12:33 GMT
Sumerian News / Baghdad announced that the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, on Saturday, the annual inflation index in Iraq rose by 8.7%, with the attributed cause because of the high prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, confirmed that these rates are calculated from the goods and services acquired by the consumer. A spokesman for the ministry Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Central Bureau of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning completed inflation report for the month of April, through the collection of field data on the prices of goods and services comprising the consumer basket of a selected sample of outlets in all folders of all of Iraq" , noting that "indicators of annual inflation for the period from April 2011 to until the month of April of this year 2012 rose by 8.7%." and attributed Hindawi reason for this is "the high price of department of food and non-alcoholic beverages by 13%," adding that "this section recorded an increase during the month of April 2012 a rate of 1% compared to the previous month, while rose by 13% compared to prices in March 2011. " The Hindawi that "these rates are calculated from the goods and services including food, rent, transportation, communications, health, education, other than he is keeping the consumer." The Ministry of Planning has declared the month of April, a rise in annual inflation for the month of March rate of 8.3% compared to March of 2011, as shown by high inflation for the month of March of 2012 and by 1.7% compared to February of 2011. and announced device Center for Statistics and Information Technology, through January 2012, it will begin using the automation in the collection of various prices and times of a specific time, rather than paper form in place earlier, emphasizing that it will contribute to the speed of price collection, accuracy, and correct calculation in case of errors. The Central Bureau of Statistics and Information Technology, respect to operations of Statistics various nationwide, and most important work to do census of the population and housing, and to do statistical operations on all areas (agricultural, industrial and other), in addition to the collection, consolidation and preparation, analysis and summarize the results of statistical operations in whole or in part.
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