{"id":296463,"date":"2017-02-22T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296463"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:13","slug":"producer-inflation-drops-to-3-1-percent-in-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/producer-inflation-drops-to-3-1-percent-in-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Inflation drops to 3.1 percent in January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Producer Price Inflation for January 2017 recorded 3.1 percent.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”uSADXXPpxehkw3Rlr2RmNgzJNT4gbvNS”]This rate is 1.7 percent lower than the rate recorded in December 2016 which was 4.9 percent.<\/p>\n

The monthly change rate for January 2017 was 2.1 percent.<\/p>\n

According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the Mining and Quarrying sub-sector recorded the highest year-on-year producer price inflation rate of 18.6 percent, followed by the Manufacturing sub-sector with 2.4 percent.<\/p>\n

The Utilities sub-sector recorded the lowest year-on-year inflation rate of negative 6.8 percent.<\/p>\n

Acting Government Statistician, Baah Wadieh explained to Citi Business News <\/strong>that the drop was influenced by declining inflation in the manufacturing and utility sub-sectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decline in the Producer Price Inflation rate was mainly due to the decline in the inflation rate for the manufacturing and utilities sub-sectors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With respect to the monthly changes, the Mining and Quarrying recorded the highest rate of 4.9 followed by manufacturing sub-sector with 2.0 percent.<\/p>\n

The Utilities sub-sector recorded the lowest rate of 0.2 percent.<\/p>\n

Changes in sector inflation<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the mining and quarrying subsector, the producer inflation rate increased by 3.0 percentage points in January 2017 relative to the rate recorded in December 2016 (15.6%).<\/p>\n

In manufacturing, the rate for January 2017 was 3.0 percentage points lower than that of December 2016 (5.4%).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile under utilities, the rate for January 2017 was 0.2 percentage point higher compared with that of December 2016 (-7.0%).<\/p>\n

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By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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