Kenya Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-August 2016
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Leading Economic Indicators
August
2016
Overview
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases Consumer Price Indices (CPI) and
rates of inflation for August, 2016. These numbers have been generated using data
collected during the second and third weeks of the month under review. The
prices were obtained from selected retail outlets in 25 data collection zones
which are located in Nairobi and in 13 other urban centers.
The CPI increased by 0.08 per cent from 170.84 in
July 2016 to 170.97 in August 2016. The overall inflation rate stood at 6.26 per
cent in August 2016.