Retail Price Index Table, March 2008


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 7                                    |         2008
                                       Mar     Apr     May     Jun     Jul     Aug     Sep     Oct     Nov     Dec  |  Jan     Feb     Mar
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All items                             -0.2     0.4     0.3     0.7     0.4     0.4     0.3     1.1 r   0.5     1.7r    0.2    -0.1     1.4

A. Food                               -0.6     0.2     0.1     0.6     0.5     0.5     0.6     1.3     0.3     2.2    -0.1    -0.5     1.4
B. Beverages and Tobacco               0.1     0.0     0.1     0.2     0.1     0.2     0.1     0.1     0.3     0.5     0.9     1.7     1.0
C. Crude Materials, Inedible
   Except Fuels 1/                     0.2     0.1     0.6     0.2     0.0     0.7    -0.4     0.1     0.6     0.6     2.3     1.2     0.6
D. Mineral Fuels, Lubricants
   and Related Materials 2/            0.4     3.0     2.5     3.7     0.4     1.0    -0.5     3.1     3.8     3.1     0.4    -1.3     2.0
E. Chemicals, Including Animal
   and Vegetable Oils and Fats 3/      0.2     0.2     0.0     0.1     0.1     0.1     0.0     0.1     0.1     0.0     0.6     0.3     0.4
F. Mftd. Goods Classified
   Chiefly by Materials 4/             0.3     0.0     0.1     0.2     0.3    -0.1     0.3     0.3     0.0     0.0     0.1     0.6     1.9
G. Machinery and Transport
   Equipment 5/                        0.1     0.1     0.1    -0.1     0.1     0.0     0.0     0.0     0.1     0.0     0.6     0.4     0.0
H. Miscellaneous Manufactured
   Articles                            0.2     0.0     0.2     0.0    -0.1     0.2     0.1     0.0     0.6     2.6r    1.0     0.5     0.6

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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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