In July 2016, entered the 7th month in 2016, Metro City experienced inflation. Group expenditure to trigger the occurrence of inflation dominated by foodstuffs with inflationary contribution of 0.2068 percent.
The main cause of inflation in the food group due to the increase in the index in most subgroups. Furthermore a subsequent expenditure is the cause of inflation is food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco contributed to inflation by 0.0667 percent; housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel contributed to inflation by 0.0311 percent and health groups to share 0.0071 percent inflation.
While the group curb inflation is deflation clothing with 0.0166 percent. Education, recreation and sports and transportation, communication and financial services did not change the index. Index changes on groups such spending causes inflation in Metro City by 0.30 percent.
Commodities that contributed high inflation during the month of July 2016 include onion, rice, sugar, red chillies, electricity tariff, cayenne pepper, clove cigarettes, spinach, gold jewelry and chicken meat.
Based on the calculation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in July 2016, inflation Metro City caused by increase in the index foodstuff with inflation of 0.70 percent; food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco index increased by 0.38 percent; housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel rose 0.14 percent and
health groups with inflation of 0.11 percent. While the group curb inflation, namely the clothing group by 0.29 percent deflation. Transportation, communication and financial services and education, recreation and sports did not change the price.
In July 2016, based on the calculation of the inflation of the 82 cities observed price changes, there are 78 cities that experienced inflation and 4 cities experiencing deflation. The highest inflation was in Tanjung Pandan amounted to 2.34 percent, while the lowest inflation occurred in Gorontalo with inflation of 0.06 percent. Meanwhile, the highest deflation occurred in Jayapura by 1.10 percent, while the lowest deflation was in Maumere with deflation of 0.05 percent. Metro City with a 0.30 percent inflation rate ranks 68th nationally.
