In December 2016, entered the final month in 2016, Metro City experienced inflation. Group expenditure to trigger the occurrence of inflation dominated by foodstuffs with inflationary contribution of 0.0894 percent followed by housing, electricity, water, gas and fuel with 0.0236 percent contribution to inflation. Followed by the transport, communication and financial services with a contribution to inflation 0.0180 percent, health group contributed to inflation by 0.0023 percent and processed food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco with a 0.0020 percent share of inflation. While groups of expenditure curb inflation in Metro City in December 2016 that the clothing category with a share deflation of 0.0067 percent. Meanwhile, on education, recreation and sport does not change the index. Changes in the index of the six groups such spending causes inflation in Metro City by 0.13 percent.
Commodities that contributed high inflation during the month of December 2016 include rice, eggs, red peppers, household fuel, cooking oil, filter cigarettes, orange, petrol, chicken and pulse rate of the mobile phone. Based on the calculation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in December 2016, the inflation caused by the presence of Metro City index increase foodstuff with inflation of 0.30 percent; transport, communication and financial services with inflation of 0.16 percent; housing, electricity, water and gas for inflation of 0.11 percent; health group with inflation of 0.04 percent and processed food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco by 0.01 percent inflation. Meanwhile, a group that curb inflation in the clothing category experienced deflation of 0.12 percent.
In December 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 Lhokseumawe by 2.25 percent, while the lowest inflation was in Tembilahan with inflation of 0.02 percent. Meanwhile, the highest deflation occurred in Manado by 1.52 percent, while the lowest was in Tegal deflation with deflation of 0.09 percent. Metro City with inflation of 0.13 percent ranks 70th nationally. Of the 23 cities on the island of Sumatra, there were 21 cities that experienced inflation with the highest inflation occurred in Lhokseumawe and the lowest inflation in Tembilahan. Meanwhile, there are two cities experiencing deflation, namely Kota Bukit higher with deflation of 0.57 and Bunge with deflation of 0.11. Metro City with inflation of 0.13 per cent was ranked 16th on the island of Sumatra.
