Industrial producer prices rise by 4.2%
Industrial producer prices rose by 4.2% on average in March 2017 compared to the same period of the previous year. Domestic output prices on average were 6.7%, within which manufacturing prices, representing a weight of two-thirds, 9.5% higher as an impact of changes in the world market price of petroleum. The domestic output prices of energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of nearly one-third, were 0.7% higher than a year earlier. Industrial non-domestic output prices went up by 3.0% compared to March of the previous year.
In March 2017 compared to March 2016:
Industrial domestic output prices increased by 6.7%. Prices in Hungary rose by 7.8% – because of increases in the world market prices of the extraction and refining of petroleum – in energy and intermediate producer branches, by 2.0% in capital goods producer and by 4.6% 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 3.0%. Within this, manufacturing prices (representing a weight of 95.1%) rose by 2.7% and the prices of energy industry (having a weight of 4.6%) by 7.5%, also due to changes in the world market price of petroleum.
In January–March 2017 compared to January–March 2016:
Domestic output prices increased by 6.0% and non-domestic output prices by 2.3%, so industrial producer prices as a whole were 3.5% higher.
Industrial price indices
(same period of previous year=100.0%)
(%)
| Year, month | Domestic output | Non-domestic output | Producer, total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 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 |
| March | 106.7 | 103.0 | 104.2 |