{"id":240502,"date":"2022-10-19T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/cpi-drops-to-7-5\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:58:10","slug":"cpi-drops-to-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cpi-drops-to-7-5\/","title":{"rendered":"CPI drops to 7.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202210\/moneysnipped0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The annual consumer price inflation (CPI) marginally dipped to 7.5% in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This was a 0.1% decrease from the 7.6% recorded in August 2022, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Statistician General Risenga Maluleke said the main contributors to the 7.5% annual inflation rate were food and non-alcoholic beverages; housing and utilities; transport; and miscellaneous goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 11.9% year-on-year, and contributed 2.0 percentage points to the total CPI annual rate of 7.5%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHousing and utilities increased by 4.2% year-on-year, and contributed 1.0 percentage point. Transport increased by 17.9% year-on-year, and contributed 2.5 percentage points,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, miscellaneous goods and services increased by 4.0% year-on-year, and contributed 0.6 of a percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn September the annual inflation rate for goods was 10.7%, down from 10.9% in August; and for services it was 4.3%, unchanged August,\u201d said Maluleke.<\/p>\n<p>Stats SA obtains prices from retailers through fieldwork collection and online collection. The paper forms used by fieldworkers are being replaced by tablets, which provide a custom application that includes quality control and management modules.<\/p>\n<p>The new collection method for fieldwork will be implemented from July 2022 to March 2023 and is expected to improve the quality and speed of data collection and processing. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual consumer price inflation (CPI) marginally dipped to 7.5% in September 2022. This was a 0.1% decrease from the 7.6% recorded in August 2022, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday. Statistician General Risenga Maluleke said the main contributors to the 7.5% annual inflation rate were food and non-alcoholic beverages; housing and utilities; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240503,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-240502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cpi-drops-to-7-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240502","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=240502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}