Retail Price Index Table, October 2007


Table 1.2 MONTHLY CHANGES OF THE RETAIL PRICE INDEX IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION IN PERCENT
          (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                              0.5    -0.5     0.3      0.1    -0.7    -0.2     0.4     0.3     0.7     0.4     0.4     0.3     1.0

A. Food                                1.4    -0.4     0.5      0.2    -0.9    -0.6     0.2     0.1     0.6     0.5     0.5     0.6     1.3
B. Beverages and Tobacco               0.1     0.1     0.3      0.1     0.2     0.1     0.0     0.1     0.2     0.1     0.2     0.1     0.1
C. Crude Materials, Inedible
   Except Fuels 1/                     0.2     0.0     0.3      0.1     0.2     0.2     0.1     0.6     0.2     0.0     0.7    -0.4     0.1
D. Mineral Fuels, Lubricants
   and Related Materials 2/           -5.3    -3.4    -1.8     -0.2    -2.5     0.4     3.0     2.5     3.7     0.4     1.0    -0.5     3.1
E. Chemicals, Including Animal
   and Vegetable Oils and Fats 3/      0.4     0.2     0.0      0.1     0.2     0.2     0.2     0.0     0.1     0.1     0.1     0.0     0.1
F. Mftd. Goods Classified
   Chiefly by Materials 4/             0.3     0.2     0.5      0.0     0.3     0.3     0.0     0.1     0.2     0.3    -0.1     0.3     0.3
G. Machinery and Transport
   Equipment 5/                        0.1     0.2     0.1r     0.1     0.1     0.1     0.1     0.1    -0.1     0.1     0.0     0.0     0.0
H. Miscellaneous Manufactured
   Articles                            0.3     0.1     0.4      0.0     0.0     0.2     0.0     0.2     0.0    -0.1     0.2     0.1     0.0

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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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