Australia CPI Consumer Price Index March 2005

CPI Australia March of 2005

Australians CPI goes down to 2.4%

The annual variation rate of the CPI in Australia in March of 2005 was 2.4%, 1 tenth less than the month before.The monthly variation rate of the CPI (Consumer Price Index) has been 0.7%, and thus the accumulated inflation in 2005 is 0.7%

We must highlight the increase of 6.1% in the prices of Education, until its interannual rate reached 6.2%, which is in contrast to the decrease in the prices of Clothing and footwear of -1.4%, and an interannual variation of -2%.

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CPI (overall index) [+]

CPI Australia March 2005

	Interannual	Accum. since January	Monthly variation
CPI (overall index) [+]	2.4%	0.7%	0.7%
Food and non-alcoholic beverages [+]	0.8%		0.9%
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco [+]	3.6%		1.3%
Clothing and footwear [+]	-2.0%		-1.4%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels [+]	4.0%		1.0%
Furniture, household equipment and maintenance [+]	-0.7%		-1.3%
Health [+]	5.7%		4.1%
Transport [+]	2.9%		-0.9%
Communication [+]	1.4%		0.4%
Recreation and culture [+]	1.7%		0.6%
Education [+]	6.2%		6.1%
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Australia: CPI annual

	2004	2003
CPI (overall index) [+]	2.5%	2.4%
Food and non-alcoholic beverages [+]	1.7%	3.4%
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco [+]	3.5%	4.4%
Clothing and footwear [+]	-1.9%	-0.9%
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels [+]	4.0%	4.7%
Furniture, household equipment and maintenance [+]	0%	-0.2%
Health [+]	4.9%	7.1%
Transport [+]	4.6%	0.2%
Communication [+]	1.1%	1.4%
Recreation and culture [+]	-0.1%	-0.5%
Education [+]	7.8%	4.7%