News
Wednesday - 29 September 2010
No. 185/2010
Producer price index in August 2010
The producer price index (PPI) in August 2010 was 184.9 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 0.9% lower than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 213.9 points which is 3.1% lower than in July 2010 (effect on the index -1.1%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 213.4 points, 0.5% lower (-0.2%). The PPI for food products decreased by 0.2% and the PPI for other manufactured products rose by 3.1% (0.4%).
The PPI for domestically sold products was 1.3% (0.3%) higher than in the previous month while the index for exported products decreased by 1.5% (-1.2%).
Compared to August 2009 the PPI has increased by 1.8%. The PPI for fish products declined by 4.8% and the PPI for power intensive industry products has increased by 11.5%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 1.1%.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2009 | ||||||
| August | 3.3 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 3.9 |
| September | 2.7 | -2.0 | 12.1 | 0.2 | -0.7 | 4.1 |
| October | 0.3 | 4.1 | -4.5 | -0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| November | 1.2 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| Desember | 1.9 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | ||||||
| January | 3.9 | -1.6 | 11.3 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 4.8 |
| February | 0.8 | -1.0 | 3.9 | 0.4 | -0.3 | 1.2 |
| March | -2.7 | 0.7 | -8.0 | -0.5 | 0.5 | -3.7 |
| April | 2.5 | -0.5 | 7.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 3.2 |
| May | 1.2 | -1.9 | 6.4 | 0.1 | -0.6 | 1.8 |
| June | -5.4 | -1.1 | -11.5 | 0.3 | -0.5 | -7.0 |
| July | -3.3 | -0.2 | -8.2 | 0.4 | -0.2 | -4.2 |
| August | -0.9 | -3.1 | -0.5 | -0.2 | 1.3 | -1.5 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2009 | ||||||
| August | 13.8 | 29.9 | -10.6 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 11.4 |
| September | 12.4 | 17.2 | -1.2 | 13.4 | 13.0 | 10.0 |
| October | 0.0 | 1.4 | -17.7 | 8.6 | 10.1 | -6.4 |
| November | -4.0 | -6.9 | -17.8 | 5.0 | 7.9 | -11.1 |
| December | 5.4 | 0.5 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 3.3 |
| 2010 | ||||||
| January | 18.1 | 4.5 | 40.9 | 2.5 | 6.6 | 21.7 |
| February | 29.8 | 20.5 | 67.8 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 41.9 |
| March | 28.4 | 22.6 | 62.8 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 40.0 |
| April | 22.8 | 9.5 | 58.1 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 30.6 |
| May | 21.4 | 3.6 | 60.3 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 28.2 |
| June | 13.5 | 1.7 | 38.1 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 17.5 |
| July | 6.1 | 0.1 | 17.8 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 7.8 |
| August | 1.8 | -4.8 | 11.5 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.2 |
In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in August 2010 was 2.0% lower than in the preceding month whereas it was 11.5% lower than in August 2009.