Industrial producer prices rise by 4.0%
Industrial producer prices rose by 4.0% on average in February 2017. Domestic output prices on average were 7.0%, within which manufacturing prices 10.2% higher as an impact of changes in the world market price of petroleum. Domestic output prices in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, also representing significant weight, were 0.7% higher than a year earlier. Industrial non-domestic output prices went up by 2.6% compared to February in the previous year.
In February 2017 compared to February 2016:
Industrial domestic output prices increased by 7.0%. Prices in Hungary rose by 8.5% – because of increases in the world market prices for the extraction and refining of petroleum – in energy and intermediate producer branches, by 2.6% in capital goods producer and by 4.0% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.
Industrial non-domestic output prices were up by 2.6%. In this group, manufacturing prices rose by 2.2% and prices in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, representing small weight, by 9.3%, also due to a change in the world market price of petroleum.
In January–February 2017 compared to January–February 2016:
Domestic output prices increased by 5.7% and non-domestic output prices by 1.9%, so industrial producer prices as a whole were 3.1% higher.
Industrial price indices
(same period of previous year=100.0%)
(%)
| Year, month | Domestic output | Non-domestic output | Producer, total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 February | 95.2 | 100.0 | 98.4 |
| March | 94.9 | 100.1 | 98.4 |
| April | 95.3 | 100.2 | 98.6 |
| May | 95.2 | 99.2 | 97.8 |
| June | 96.0 | 98.1 | 97.4 |
| July | 96.5 | 98.3 | 97.7 |
| August | 96.7 | 97.4 | 97.2 |
| September | 97.2 | 97.5 | 97.4 |
| October | 98.8 | 98.7 | 98.8 |
| November | 99.6 | 99.5 | 99.5 |
| December | 101.2 | 100.2 | 100.5 |
| 2017 January | 104.3 | 101.2 | 102.2 |
| February | 107.0 | 102.6 | 104.0 |