{"id":1371,"date":"2013-08-01T03:21:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T07:46:42","slug":"the-annual-cpi-inflation-rate-dipped-by-01-to-55-in-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"The annual CPI inflation rate dipped by 0,1% to 5,5% in June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Food inflation recorded its fourth successive\u00a0year on year\u00a0increase and is now at its highest point for the year.\u00a0 The inflationary pressures are distributed across a range of food groups, with processed food reflecting a higher rate of\u00a0inflation at 7,6% compared to processed food at 6,3%.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Prices of alcoholic beverages dropped on average by 0,3% between May and June.\u00a0 This drop breaks a series of successive monthly increases for the past 6 months which by themselves almost fully account for the annual rate of 6,5%.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Actual and imputed rentals for housing represent a significant 16,2% of the total CPI weight.\u00a0 Results from the June rental survey showed increases of 1,5% and 1,4% for these respectively.\u00a0 These increase are bigger than the 1,2% recorded this time last year.\u00a0 These increases pushed the housing category to be the biggest single contributor to this months mom inflation &#8211; 0,2 of the 0,3% monthly increase.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The usually influential transport category was up only 0,2% mom.\u00a0 The petrol price dropped 8c between May and June, but public transport increased by 1,7% mainly because of annual increase in train fares of 7,9%.\u00a0 Increases in taxi fares are more muted than observed in 2012.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food inflation recorded its fourth successive\u00a0year on year\u00a0increase and is now at its highest point for the year.\u00a0 The inflationary pressures are distributed across a range of food groups, with processed food reflecting a higher rate of\u00a0inflation at 7,6% compared to processed food at 6,3%. \u00a0 Prices of alcoholic beverages dropped on average by 0,3%&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=1371\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}