{"id":4155,"date":"2015-02-18T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2015-02-18T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:02:50","slug":"cpi-drops-to-levels-last-seen-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"CPI drops to levels last seen in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual CPI inflation dropped to 4,4% in January 2015 from 5,3% in December 2014, the lowest since April 2011, when the CPI stood at 4,2%.<\/p>\n<p>Key drivers pulling the CPI down were petrol and food. The 127c\/l drop in the price of petrol in January further contributed to the decline in the CPI for petrol, which decreased from -5,5% in December 2014 to -17,6% in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Food inflation has also slowed, decreasing from 7,4% in December 2014 to 6,6% in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The main driver of the declining food inflation was vegetables, 1,0% for January 2015 against 4,9% in December 2014.\u00a0On a month-to-month basis the prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 0,9%.<\/p>\n<p>Download full publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/P0141\/P0141January2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual CPI inflation dropped to 4,4% in January 2015 from 5,3% in December 2014, the lowest since April 2011, when the CPI stood at 4,2%. Key drivers pulling the CPI down were petrol and food. The 127c\/l drop in the price of petrol in January further contributed to the decline in the CPI for petrol,&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=4155\" 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":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-growth","category-economy-data-stories","category-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}