News
Wednesday - 30 May 2012
No. 100/2012
Producer prices increase by 0.5% from previous month
The producer price index (PPI) in April 2012 was 224.8 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 0.5% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 278.0 points which is 1.2% higher than in March 2012 (effect on the index 0.4%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was unchanged at 249.9 points. The PPI for food products increased by 0.6% (0.1%) and the PPI for other manufactured products declined by 0.2%.
The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.5% (0.1%) higher than in the previous month and the index for exported products also rose by 0.5% (0.4%).
Compared to April 2011 the PPI has increased by 5.3%. The PPI for fish products rose by 12.4% and the PPI for power intensive industry products decreased by 3.4%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 5.4%.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2011 | ||||||
| April | 1.6 | 1.7 | -0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
| May | 1.6 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 |
| June | 0.5 | 1.8 | -1.6 | 1.1 | -0.1 | 0.7 |
| July | 0.2 | 0.2 | -0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -0.2 |
| August | -0.8 | 0.5 | -2.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | -1.3 |
| September | -0.6 | 0.2 | -2.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | -1.2 |
| October | -1.1 | 1.8 | -4.5 | -0.7 | 0.0 | -1.3 |
| November | -0.9 | 0.5 | -4.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | -1.5 |
| December | 0.1 | 1.9 | -1.6 | -0.4 | -0.2 | 0.2 |
| 2012 | ||||||
| January | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| February | 1.9 | -0.8 | 5.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.4 |
| March | 2.7 | 2.2 | 4.5 | -0.2 | 0.7 | 3.3 |
| April | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2011 | ||||||
| April | 6.0 | 8.4 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 6.2 |
| May | 6.3 | 11.4 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 6.3 |
| June | 13.0 | 14.6 | 14.1 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 15.0 |
| July | 17.1 | 15.0 | 23.6 | 6.9 | 7.6 | 19.8 |
| August | 17.2 | 19.4 | 20.7 | 8.7 | 7.5 | 20.0 |
| September | 13.9 | 15.3 | 13.2 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 15.1 |
| October | 12.8 | 16.3 | 10.4 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 14.1 |
| November | 8.4 | 16.2 | -2.5 | 7.7 | 9.6 | 8.0 |
| December | 6.7 | 18.4 | -6.4 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | ||||||
| January | 5.7 | 16.3 | -8.1 | 7.5 | 9.4 | 4.6 |
| February | 4.9 | 12.7 | -6.5 | 6.4 | 8.4 | 3.9 |
| March | 6.4 | 12.9 | -3.9 | 5.0 | 8.2 | 5.9 |
| April | 5.3 | 12.4 | -3.4 | 5.4 | 7.7 | 4.5 |
In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in April 2012 was 0.4% higher than in the preceding month and 5.6% higher than in April 2011.
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