Consumer Price Index/Inflation Rate Statistics Table, August 2010


Table 11.  Monthly Consumer Price Index for Food and Food, Beverages and Tobacco (FBT)
           for All Income Households, by Area, August 2009 - August 2010
           (2000 = 100)

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Area                                         2 0 1 0                       |                   2 0 0 9            
  Commodity Group     Aug    Jul    Jun    May    Apr    Mar    Feb    Jan |   Ave    Dec    Nov    Oct    Sep    Aug 
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Philippines

  Food, beverages,
    and tobacco     166.7  166.1  165.8  165.2  165.0  164.8  165.3  165.1   161.2  165.0  164.4  163.1  161.4  161.1 
  Food              168.1  167.4  167.1  166.6  166.2  166.1  166.6  166.5   162.4  166.4  165.8  164.4  162.6  162.3  

National Capital
  Region (NCR)

  Food, beverages,
    and tobacco     155.1  154.9  155.3  154.6  154.3  154.1  154.8  155.7   152.5  156.4  156.0  156.7  152.7  151.6 	
  Food              156.0  155.8  156.2  155.5  155.1  154.9  155.7  156.7   153.5  157.5  157.1  157.9  153.5  152.4 

Areas Outside NCR
  (AONCR)

  Food, beverages,
    and tobacco     170.4  169.6  169.1  168.6  168.4  168.2  168.6  168.1   164.0  167.7  167.1  165.2  164.2  164.1   	
  Food              171.9  171.1  170.6  170.1  169.8  169.7  170.1  169.6   165.3  169.3  168.6  166.5  165.5  165.4r  	

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

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