Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-August 2018
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Leading Economic Indicators
August
2018
Overview
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price Indices
(CPI) and rates of inflation, for August, 2018. These numbers were generated from a
survey of retail prices that targeted a basket of household consumption goods and
services. The survey was conducted during the second and third weeks of the month,
with prices being obtained from selected retail outlets in 25 data collection zones in
Nairobi and in 13 other urban centers.
The CPI increased by 0.31 per cent from 191.59 in July
2018 to 192.18 in August 2018. The overall year on year inflation stood at 4.04 per
cent in August 2018.