Industrial producer prices rise by 4.4%
Industrial producer prices as a whole rose by 4.4% in April 2017 compared to the same period of the previous year. Domestic output prices were 6.8% higher on average. Within this, the prices of manufacturing, representing a weight of two-thirds, were – as an impact of changes in the world market price of petroleum – 9.5% and the prices of energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of nearly one-third, 1.0% higher than a year earlier. Industrial non-domestic output prices went up by 3.4% compared to April of the previous year.
In April 2017 compared to April 2016:
Industrial domestic output prices increased by 6.8%. Prices in Hungary rose by 7.4% – because of increases in the world market prices of the extraction and refining of petroleum – in energy and intermediate producer branches, by 3.3% in capital goods producer and by 5.6% 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 3.4%. Within this, the prices of manufacturing (representing a weight of 95.1%) rose by 3.4% and the prices of energy industry (having a weight of 4.6%) by 2.5%.
In January–April 2017 compared to January–April 2016:
Domestic output prices increased by 6.2% and non-domestic output prices by 2.5%, so industrial producer prices as a whole were 3.7% higher.
Industrial price indices
(same period of previous year=100.0%)
(%)
| Year, month | Domestic output | Non-domestic output | Producer, total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 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 |
| April | 106.8 | 103.4 | 104.4 |