Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-February 2018
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CPI and Inflation Rates
February
2018
Overview
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases monthly Consumer Price
Indices (CPI) and rates of inflation, for February, 2018. These numbers were
generated by conducting a survey of retail prices for a basket of household
consumption goods and services, during the second and third weeks of the
month under review. The prices were obtained from selected retail outlets in
25 data collection zones spread across Nairobi and 13 other urban centers.
The CPI increased by 1.36 per cent from 185.47
in January 2018 to 188.00 in February 2018. The overall year on year
inflation stood at 4.46 per cent in February 2018.