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Haiti - Economy : Index of Consumer Prices (September 2013) 23/10/2013 10:43:52 The monthly increase observed is the result of consumption functions "Clothing and Textiles, Footwear" (+0.5%), "Rent Housing, Energy and Water" (+0.2%), "Development, Equipment and Housing Maintenance" (+0.2%) and "Health" (+0.8%). For cons, the function "Food, Beverages and Tobacco" that represents more than 50% of the household budget still shows a downward trend (-0.1%). Note that the increase in function "Clothing and Textiles, Footwear" is explained by the higher cost of products such as fabrics (+1.3%), shirt (+1.8%), pants for men (+0.8%) and petticoat (+0.7%). The increase in "Rent Housing, Energy and Water" function comes only from the variation price of charcoal (+0.8%). The indice "Development, Equipment and Housing Maintenance" owes its upward progression to the evolution in the price of salon furniture (+1.0%), the mattresses, towels and wages of domestic workers respectively (+0.3%) and bed linen (+0.6%) and the rise of "Health" function is related to corrective eye glasses (+0.6%), the fees paid to doctors (+1.1%) and hospitalization (2.1%). Finally, it should be noted that the decline in the "Food, Beverages and Tobacco" function is mainly due to the price of corn in grain (- 0.7%), ground corn (-0.9%), wheat (-0.7%) , lawyer (-1.5%), banana (-1.2%), giraumon (-1.0%), potatoes (-1.4%), breadfruit (-1.2%), orange (-1.5%) and chadèque (-1.9%). SSituation in figures by function for the whole country (yoy) : Food, beverages and tobacco : 4.7% Clothing and textiles, footwear : 5.0% Rent housing, energy and water : 4.4% Development and maintenance of housing : 4.0% Health : 3.6% Transport : 1.9% Recreation, entertainment, education and cultural : 9.1% Other goods and services : 4.3% Situation in Figures local products (yoy) : Food, beverages and tobacco : 5.9% Clothing and textiles, footwear : 4.5% Rent housing, energy and water : 5.9% Development and maintenance of housing : 5.3% Health : 5.2% Transport : -0.3% Recreation, entertainment, education and cultural : 7.7% Other goods and services : 1.2% Situation in figures of imported products (YoY) : Food, beverages and tobacco : 1.4% Clothing and textiles, footwear : 5.3% Rent housing, energy and water : 1.1% Development and maintenance of housing : 1.6% Health : 5.2% Transport : 3.9% Recreation, entertainment, education and cultural : 7.7% Other goods and services 6.1% General Price Index by Region (Variation on a month) : Metropolitan Area: +0.1% (Includes Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Petion-Ville, Carrefour and Croix des Bouquets.) Rest West: +0.2% (includes departments Southeast and West excluding the metropolitan area) North: +0.1% (including departments of North, Northeast and Northwest) South: +0.1% (including departments of South Grand Anse and Nippes) Transversal: +0.2% (including departments of Centre and Artibonite) HL/ HaitiLibre
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