With cigarettes more expensive, official inflation rate more than doubles in April
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IPCA rose from 0.20% to 0.48%, shows IBGE.
Cigarette prices rose 14.71% last month.
The villain of health was also the villain of inflation in April, an increase of 14.71%, cigarettes pulled high index of National Consumer Price Index (IPCA). The index, considered the official rate of inflation, rose from 0.20% in March to 0.48% last month, more than doubling in the period. In the first four months of the year, the CPI has accumulated a 1.72%, down from 2.08% in the same period of 2008. In the past 12 months, the high cumulative average of 5.3%.
Among the groups surveyed by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), costs people had the highest variation of 2.14%. It is this group which is part of the cigarette, which accounts for 0.13 percentage point to inflation in April. This change reflects part of the readjustment of March 16, along with an increase due to the lifting of IPI and PIS / COFINS, with effect from April 10.
Also among the personal expenses, highlight the item for personal services, an increase of 1.55%. The main increases were observed in the items domestic employees (1.83%), hairdresser (1.59%), manicure (1.44%) and dressmaker (1.16%).
The prices of medicines have also contributed to rising inflation: an increase of 2.89% in the month, the item led the group health and personal care to record the second major change from March to April, with a rate of 1.10%. This result reflects the adjustment of 5.90% given on March 31 for certain medications, according to IBGE.
The other pressure groups came from garments, up 1.08%, and housing, with 0.75%. Household items fell by 0.50%, while the transport group had a deflation of 0.21%.
INPC increased by 0.55%
The National Index of Consumer Prices (INPC), which measures inflation for low income families who earn from one to six times the minimum wage also had a strong acceleration in April, from 0.20% the previous month to 0.55 %.
In the year, the INPC was 1.71% below the same period in 2008 (2.34%). In the past 12 months, the cumulative rate stood at 5.83%.
Source: G1
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