Retail Price Index Table, October 2007


Table 1.1  RETAIL PRICE INDEX IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
           (1978 = 100)

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                                            2 0 0 6        |                                     2 0 0 7
                                      Oct     Nov     Dec  |   Jan     Feb     Mar     Apr     May     Jun     Jul     Aug     Sep     Oct
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All items                          1278.0  1272.0  1275.8   1277.2  1268.8  1265.7  1270.3  1273.8  1282.4  1287.4  1292.7  1297.1r 1310.7

A. Food                            1267.1  1261.8  1268.6   1271.0  1259.7  1252.3  1255.1  1256.1  1263.2  1270.0  1276.5r 1283.6  1299.7
B. Beverages and Tobacco           1273.2  1274.6  1279.0   1279.9  1282.0  1283.5  1283.9  1284.9  1287.3  1288.5  1290.5  1291.2  1292.5
C. Crude Materials, Inedible
   Except Fuels 1/                  896.4   896.4   899.0    900.2   902.3   904.5   905.8   911.6   913.7   913.7   920.3   916.2   916.8
D. Mineral Fuels, Lubricants
   and Related Materials 2/        1685.4  1628.2  1599.5   1596.1  1556.3  1562.1  1608.4  1648.1  1708.9  1715.3  1733.2  1724.1r 1777.0
E. Chemicals, Including Animal
   and Vegetable Oils and Fats 3/  1663.9  1667.6  1667.1   1668.1  1672.2  1676.0  1678.7  1678.7  1679.7  1681.4  1683.2  1683.6  1685.0
F. Mftd. Goods Classified
   Chiefly by Materials 4/         1135.8  1138.6  1144.0   1144.5  1148.1  1152.0  1151.9  1153.3  1155.7  1158.7  1157.2  1160.7  1164.1
G. Machinery and Transport
   Equipment 5/                     715.6   716.9   717.9r   718.4   718.8   719.5   720.1   720.8   720.3   720.8   720.8   721.1   720.9
H. Miscellaneous Manufactured
   Articles                        1475.3  1476.5  1482.7   1482.8  1483.3  1486.4  1486.3  1488.8  1488.7  1487.1  1489.6  1490.6  1491.3

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r - revised

1/ Excludes copra, textile fibers, cork, crude fertilizers, logs, metalliferous and metal crops,
   which are mostly industrial crude materials.
2/ Excludes petroleum oil, coal, coke and carbon.
3/ Excludes basic and industrial chemical, animal and vegetable oils and fats, fertilizers and limes,
   crude dye stuffs and tanning extracts.
4/ Excludes leather and manufatures, other than rubber and related products, other wood cane
   and cork products, pulp paper and paperboard containers, abaca, clay products, primary metals.
5/ Excludes agricultural machinery and equipment, communications equipment, general and
   accounting machines and transport equipment.

Source:  Economic Indices and Indicators Division, Prices and Indicators Section
         Industry and Trade Statistics Department
         National Statistics Office
         Republic of the Philippines


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