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Consumer Price Index, base period June 2019 November 2022

Oranjestad - The Central Bureau
of Statistics presents the most im-
portant findings for the Consumer
Price Index (CPI) for the month of
November 2022.

Consumer Price Index for the
month of November 2022
The CPI for November 2022 is
106.49, an increase of 0.2% com-
pared to the index of October
2022 (106.30) and accumulating
an increase of 5.8% up to and in-
cluding November of this year.
The percentage change of the CPI
over the last twelve (12) months
(November 2021 to November
2022) is 6.6, an increase of 3.5 per-
centage points (ppts) compared
to the percentage change for the cations” sector was mainly due
same period of the previous year to a decrease in the category Core inflation

(3.1%). “Telephone and telefax services” The CPIC (core inflation) - CPI ex-
(-6.8%), which contributed to an cluding the effect of energy and
The period average (last 24 effect of -0.51 ppts. food – was 3.0% in November 2022.
months) percentage change of The energy index - which consists
the CPI for the periods November Consumption basket of the products: electricity, water,
2020 to November 2021 and No- The consumption basket of the CPI gasoline and diesel – was 13.5%.
vember 2021 to November 2022 is consists of 408 goods and services. The food index showed an in-
5.3%, an increase of 5.1 ppts com- Compared to October 2022, 52.7% crease of 9.7%.
pared to the period average per- of these products had an increase
centage change over the periods in price, causing an effect of 1.40 Subsistence level
November 2019 to November 2020 ppts, while 33.1% showed a de- The subsistence level for a house-
and November 2020 to November crease, contributing to an effect of hold consisting of two (2) adults and
2021 (0.2%). -1.22 ppts and the remaining 14.2% two (2) children (aged 0-14 years)
had no change in price. The pric- in November 2022 is Afl. 5,362, an
During this month, eight (8) of the es of goods increased by 1.4% and increase of Afl. 466 compared to
twelve (12) sectors registered in- caused an influence of 0.82 ppts. November 2021 (Afl. 4,896). The
creases in prices. The increases The prices of services decreased subsistence level for a single adult
that had the greatest influence by 1.6% and had an influence of household is Afl. 2,553, an increase
on the CPI were registered for the -0.64 ppts on the CPI of November of Afl. 222 compared to November
“Transport” (2.2%) and “Food and 2022. 2021 (Afl. 2,331).q

non-alcoholic beverages” (1.7%)
sectors, which contributed with an
effect of 0.31 and 0.20 ppts, re-
spectively. The increasesin the re-
maining sectors had an effect of
0.35 ppts on the CPI of November
2022.

Aforementioned increases were
partially offset mainly by a de-
crease in the index for the “Com-
munications” (-6.5%) sector, caus-
ing an effect of -0.51 ppts. The
decreases in the remaining sectors
had an effect of -0.17 ppts on the
CPI of November 2022.

The increase in the “Transport” sec-
tor was mainly due to an increase
in the category “Operation of per-
sonal transport equipment” (3.0%),
which contributed to an effect
of 0.25 ppts. The increase in the
“Food and non-alcoholic bever-
ages” sector was mainly due to an
increase of 1.8% in the category
“Food”, which contributed to an
effect of 0.18 ppts.

The decrease in the “Communi-