Prices at Armenia’s consumer market rise 1.3% in November, compared with October – National Statistical Service
19.12.2014,
17:07
Prices at Armenia’s consumer market went 1.3% up in November, compared with October, Gurgen Martirosyan, chief of the National Statistical Service’s unit on prices and international comparison, told journalists on Friday.
YEREVAN, December 19. /ARKA/. Prices at Armenia’s consumer market went 1.3% up in November, compared with October, Gurgen Martirosyan, chief of the National Statistical Service’s unit on prices and international comparison, told journalists on Friday.
In his words, the month-on-month consumer price index was 101.3% in November. It means that a 1.3% growth was recorded. “Of 13 groups of goods, prices rose in eights groups, while in other four groups prices fell and in one they remained unchanged,” he said.
Martirosyan said that price hikes were seen at potato and vegetable market – prices here soared 22.7%, fruits went 0.9% up, bread 0.5%, dairy products 2.3% and eggs 1.8%. Instead, prices for fish products slid 0.4% and for meat 0.1%.
Comparison with autumn 2013 shows, he said, that the then total increase was recorded at 1% and this year's at 2.7%.
«Under the total increase of 1.3% in November, foods rose 2.5% and nonfoods 0.9%, while services slipped 0.2%,» he said.
Martirosyan said that in November 2014, compared with December 2013, prices at consumer market rose 1.5%, foods rose 0.6%, spirits and cigarettes 6.8%, nonfoods 1.4% and services 2.3%.
«Among the CIS countries, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Russia were singled out for relatively high price rise indicators – 2%, 19% and 1.3% respectively,» he said. «Prices shed in Georgia.» -0----
