Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-December 2018
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CPI and Inflation Rates
December
2018
Overview
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price
Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation for December, 2018. These numbers were
generated from a survey of retail prices that targeted a basket of household
consumption goods and services. The exercise 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 0.65 per cent from 192.25
in November 2018 to 193.51 in December 2018. The overall year on year
inflation in December stood at 5.71 per cent.