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EEA consumer prices up 1.5 per cent
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Harmonized index of consumer prices, March 2004

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EEA consumer prices up 1.5 per cent

The harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) for the EEA was 114.6 (1996=100) in March. The year-to-year change in March was 1.5 per cent in the EEA. In comparison, the HICP for Norway fell by 0.4 per cent in the same period.

The HICP in the Euro-zone was 115.0 in March. In advance, Eurostat estimated the year-to-year growth in March in the Euro-zone to 1.6 per cent, while the actual price growth turned out to be 1.7 per cent.

For Norway the HICP was 116.7 in March, up 0.5 per cent from February. From March 2003 to March 2004 the consumer prices fell by 0.4 per cent, up from a decrease of 1.5 per cent in February.

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Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices for Norway and other
selected countries. Change in per cent
  January 2003-January 2004 February 2003-February 2004 March 2003-March 2004
Norway -1.4 -1.5 -0.4
Iceland 1.4 1.4 1.0
Sweden 1.3 0.2 0.4
Denmark 1.0 0.7 0.4
Finland 0.8 0.4 -0.4
Germany 1.2 0.8 1.1
UK 1.4 1.3 ...
EEA 1.7 1.5 21.5
EU 1.8 1.5 21.5
Euro-zone 1.9 1.6 21.7
US1 1.9 1.7 1.7
Japan1 -0.3 - ...
1  National CPI.
2  Provisional or preliminary figure.
Source:  Statistics Norway and EUROSTAT.