Sept CPI increases slightly by 0.3pc
Published on: Saturday, October 27, 2018
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures headline inflation, recorded a slight increase of 0.3 per cent in September 2018 compared with the previous corresponding month due to the impact of RON95 fuel prices which remained the same from March to September 2018.Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, said although the Sales and Services Tax was reinstated beginning Sept 1, in terms of the index, it did not show significant change as compared to a year ago."The major groups which recorded increases were the indices for housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (+2.1 per cent), restaurants, hotels and education (+1.1 per cent) respectively, food and non-alcoholic beverages (+0.5 per cent) and transport (+0.3 per cent)," the Department of Statistics (DoS) said in a statement.
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Meanwhile, the January-September 2018 CPI increased 1.2 per cent compared with the same period in 2017.The DoS said in terms of overall CPI, three states surpassed the national CPI rate of 0.3 per cent recorded in September 2018 compared with September 2017."The states were Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur (+0.9 per cent), Negeri Sembilan (+0.7 per cent), as well as Selangor and Federal Territory Putrajaya (+0.4 per cent) while Penang showed the same rate as the national CPI," it said.Meanwhile, a higher increase in the index for food and non-alcoholic beverages was seen in most states.
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