Producers Price Index: December 2008 quarter

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Producers' output prices rise while input prices fall

Highlights

  • The Producers Price Index (PPI) outputs index rose 1.4 percent.

 

  • Output prices for dairy product manufacturing rose 19.2 percent.

 

  • Output prices rose 9.9 percent between the December 2007 and December 2008 quarters.
  • The PPI inputs index fell 2.2 percent.

 

  • Input prices for wholesale trade fell 11.7 percent.

 

  • Input prices rose 9.7 percent between the December 2007 and December 2008 quarters.
 

 Graph, Producers Price Index All industries.

Geoff Bascand 16 February 2009
Government Statistician ISSN 1178-0622

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