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Unchanged HICP
The harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) for Norway showed no change this month, compared with the previous. The year-to-year growth was also the same as last month.
The HICP for Norway was 103,5 (2005=100) in October this year, the same as in September. The prices for electricity and clothing rose, whereas prices for food, specially fruits and vegetables, and for the group “transport”, fell.
Prices were down 0,3 per cent the last twelve months, which is the same rate as previous month.
See http://www.ssb.no/english/kpi_en/ for more details.
EEA, EU and euro-area
The HICP in September 2007 for the EEA was 104,9, for the EU it was 105.0, while for the euro-area it stood at 104,7. The year-to-year growth in September was 2.2 per cent for the EEA and the EU, while the euro-area had a growth of 2.1 per cent. Eurostat's flash estimate for the year-to-year growth in the HICP for the euro-area is 2.6 per cent for October 2007.
August 2006- August 2007 | September 2006- September 2007 | October 2006- October 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Norway | 0.6 | -0.3 | 1-0.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iceland | 1.8 | 2.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sweden | 1.2 | 1.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Denmark | 0.9 | 1.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finland | 1.3 | 1.7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Germany | 2.0 | 2.7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UK | 1.8 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EEA | 1.9 | 12.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EU | 1.9 | 12.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Euro-area | 1.7 | 12.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | Provisional or preliminary figures. |
2 | Not available. |
Source: Statistics Norway and EUROSTAT. |
The statistics is now published as Consumer price index.
Contact
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Konsumprisindeksen
E-mail: konsumprisindeksen@ssb.no
tel.: (+47) 62 88 56 34
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Kjersti Nyborg Hov
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tel.: (+47) 40 90 23 63
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Camilla Rochlenge
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tel.: (+47) 40 90 23 72
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Gunnar Larsson
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tel.: (+47) 40 90 26 79
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Trym Kristian Økland
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