NEWS RELEASE PRICES 27 MARCH 2015

The producer price index (PPI) in February 2015 was 219.0 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 2.0% lower than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 271.0 points which is 1.9% lower than in January 2015 (effect on the index -0.6%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 226.1 points, 4.2% lower (-1.4%). The PPI for food products decreased by 0.5% (-0.1%) and the PPI for other manufactured products increased by 0.9% (0.1%).

The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.2% (0.1%) higher than in the previous month while the index for exported products decreased by 2.8% (-2.1%).

Compared with February 2014 the PPI has increased by 12.1%. The PPI for fish products increased by 13.2% and the PPI for power intensive industry increased by 22.0%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 0.4%.

Monthly changes (%)
      Power       
      intensive      
    Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2014
February -0.1 -1.1 -2.0 -0.4 2.4 -0.9
March -0.9 1.5 -2.7 0.0 -1.1 -0.9
April 0.5 2.6 -0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5
May 1.7 0.5 7.3 0.0 -1.9 2.9
June 1.0 1.4 -2.2 -0.1 2.6 0.4
July 0.8 1.3 4.4 0.1 -2.3 1.9
August 3.5 2.4 7.7 0.1 0.5 4.6
September 1.7 -1.8 4.8 -0.4 1.4 1.9
October 1.2 2.0 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.3
November 0.6 1.5 0.2 -0.3 -0.2 0.8
December 3.3 2.1 6.5 0.2 0.9 4.2
2015
January 0.2 1.0 -0.6 -0.2 -0.1 0.3
February -2.0 -1.9 -4.2 -0.5 0.2 -2.8

 

Annual changes (%)
      Power       
      intensive      
    Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2014            
February -9.9 -8.9 -22.7 2.1 5.2 -14.2
March -9.5 -4.0 -23.5 1.2 2.9 -13.0
April -3.3 2.9 -14.9 2.0 4.5 -5.6
May -2.2 1.6 -8.3 1.7 1.6 -3.5
June -1.8 1.6 -9.8 2.1 3.9 -3.6
July -0.8 3.0 -5.8 2.3 1.8 -1.7
August 5.6 6.0 7.0 2.5 4.3 6.1
September 4.4 2.5 8.5 1.6 2.9 4.9
October 6.5 4.1 12.1 0.9 3.9 7.4
November 6.1 4.8 9.1 0.5 4.2 6.8
December 12.2 9.6 24.9 1.1 2.9 15.6
2015            
January 14.2 14.0 24.8 0.5 3.3 18.3
February 12.1 13.2 22.0 0.4 1.2 16.0

Statistics

Further Information

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