News
Tuesday - 28 February 2012
No. 37/2012
Producer prices increase by 1.1% from previous month
The producer price index (PPI) in January 2012 was 213.6 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 1.1% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 271.0 points which is 1.6% higher than in December 2011 (effect on the index 0.6%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 227.3 points, 0.4% higher (0.1%). The PPI for food products increased by 0.2% and the PPI for other manufactured products rose by 2.4% (0.4%).
The PPI for domestically sold products was 1.0% (0.2%) higher than in the previous month while the index for exported products rose by 1.1% (0.9%).
Compared to January 2011 the PPI has increased by 5.7%. The PPI for fish products rose by 16.3% and the PPI for power intensive industry products decreased by 8.1%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 7.5%.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2011 | ||||||
| January | 2,1 | 3,5 | 2,2 | 0,0 | -0,3 | 2,7 |
| February | 2,7 | 2,4 | 3,4 | 1,0 | 1,2 | 3,1 |
| March | 1,3 | 2,0 | 1,6 | 1,1 | 0,8 | 1,4 |
| April | 1,6 | 1,7 | -0,5 | 0,2 | 0,9 | 1,8 |
| May | 1,6 | 0,8 | 4,6 | 0,3 | 0,5 | 1,9 |
| June | 0,5 | 1,8 | -1,6 | 1,1 | -0,1 | 0,7 |
| July | 0,2 | 0,2 | -0,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | -0,2 |
| August | -0,8 | 0,5 | -2,9 | 1,5 | 1,2 | -1,3 |
| September | -0,6 | 0,2 | -2,6 | 1,2 | 1,2 | -1,2 |
| October | -1,1 | 1,8 | -4,5 | -0,7 | 0,0 | -1,3 |
| November | -0,9 | 0,5 | -4,0 | 0,2 | 0,9 | -1,5 |
| December | 0,1 | 1,9 | -1,6 | -0,4 | -0,2 | 0,2 |
| 2012 | ||||||
| January | 1,1 | 1,6 | 0,4 | 0,2 | 1,0 | 1,1 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2011 | ||||||
| January | 0,9 | 1,3 | 1,9 | 2,7 | 1,7 | 0,3 |
| February | 2,7 | 4,7 | 1,5 | 3,3 | 3,2 | 2,2 |
| March | 6,9 | 6,1 | 12,1 | 5,0 | 3,5 | 7,7 |
| April | 6,0 | 8,4 | 4,3 | 4,7 | 4,1 | 6,2 |
| May | 6,3 | 11,4 | 2,5 | 4,9 | 5,2 | 6,3 |
| June | 13,0 | 14,6 | 14,1 | 5,8 | 5,7 | 15,0 |
| July | 17,1 | 15,0 | 23,6 | 6,9 | 7,6 | 19,8 |
| August | 17,2 | 19,4 | 20,7 | 8,7 | 7,5 | 20,0 |
| September | 13,9 | 15,3 | 13,2 | 10,1 | 9,4 | 15,1 |
| October | 12,8 | 16,3 | 10,4 | 8,0 | 7,8 | 14,1 |
| November | 8,4 | 16,2 | -2,5 | 7,7 | 9,6 | 8,0 |
| December | 6,7 | 18,4 | -6,4 | 7,3 | 8,0 | 6,3 |
| 2012 | ||||||
| January | 5,7 | 16,3 | -8,1 | 7,5 | 9,4 | 4,6 |
In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in January 2012 was 1.0% higher than in the preceding month and 3.8% higher than in January 2011.