Thus, the interannual trajectory of the indicator stood at 54.1%.
The largest increases occurred in the categories of Education (22%), Clothing and footwear (9.5%), Home equipment and maintenance (7.2%), Insurance and financial services (6.9%), and Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (6.5%).
upload them in “Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels” were 6.5% and contributed 1.08 percentage points (pp) to the monthly variation in consumer prices, due to increases in housing rental prices, followed in importance by adjustments in the residential electricity and natural gas network rates, and increases in the values of common housing expenses.
the category of Food and non-alcoholic beverages averaged an increase of 5.7%, contributing 1.01 pp to the monthly variation in prices, whose main impulses came from the rises of Bread and cereals (9.1%), Meat and derivatives (6.5%) and Milk, dairy products and eggs (7.1%).
For its part, the Education item averaged an increase of 22.0% and had an impact of 0.94 pp, impacting the increases in the fees of formal education establishments; while Clothing and footwear increased 9.5%, with an impact of 0.51 pp, as a result of the seasonal behavior of the division; and Health registered an increase of 5.6% and had a 0.49 pp impact, due to adjustments in prepaid medicine quotas and, to a lesser extent, increases in the prices of medicines.
Until last month, the evolution of the CPI in the City of Buenos Aires was supplied along with the Indec, which will publish on Wednesday, April 13, the national data corresponding to March.
The Buenos Aires General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses said that the change in the publication date is due to a review of the weights and the products that make up the index basket – which had been prepared based on the National Household Expenditure Survey (ENGHo) 2004-2005-, as well as the classification system, of the informants that make up the sample, the weights by type of business -for example, mobile telephony services and equipment increased their weight, while fixed telephony increased their weight. reduced- and of the calculation and imputation processes, with the aim of changing the base period.
“The selection and calculation of the weights of the new basket of goods and services of the IPCBA so that their new reference period responds to the survey period of the last ENGHo: November 2017 to November 2018”, pointed out the IPCBA report.
In this way, the new IPCBA basket was made up of 522 products, 438 of them were maintained and another 84 products were added, such as bundled telecommunications services, streaming services and sports club.
Source: Ambito
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