{"id":16449,"date":"2012-11-06T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/s-africa-changes-cpi-weights-electricity-doubles\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:37:22","slug":"s-africa-changes-cpi-weights-electricity-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-changes-cpi-weights-electricity-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa changes CPI weights, electricity doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has changed the<br \/>\nweightings in its consumer price index basket to reflect the<br \/>\nlatest spending patterns, giving a slightly lower weighting to<br \/>\nfood, while petrol and electricity weightings will rise, the<br \/>\nstatistics agency said on Tuesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The weighting of electricity and other fuels has doubled to<br \/>\n4.1 percent from 2.1 percent previously, reflecting a steady<br \/>\nrise in electricity tariffs from state utility Eskom. Petrol<br \/>\nwill rise to 5.4 percent from 3.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Household contents and services also dropped in weighting,<br \/>\nto 4.9 percent from 6.1 percent, Statistics South Africa said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The agency said the new weights would apply from January<br \/>\n2013.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Analysts said the changes would not make a marked difference<br \/>\nto headline inflation, which quickened to 5.5 percent in<br \/>\nSeptember.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stats SA said it would not recalculate previous inflation<br \/>\nnumbers.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Stella Mapenzauswa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa has changed the weightings in its consumer price index basket to reflect the latest spending patterns, giving a slightly lower weighting to food, while petrol and electricity weightings will rise, the statistics agency said on Tuesday. The weighting of electricity and other fuels has doubled to 4.1 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}