Consumer Prices Indexes (CPI) and Inflation Rates for the Month of May 2006

Abstract

The Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to release the Consumer Price Indices (CPI) and inflation rates for the month of May 2006, for your information and use. This data is generated through monthly data collection from retail outlets in 13 urban centres in Kenya . The data is perceived to be representative of the spending behaviour of Kenyan urban households. The price data is collected in the second and third week of the month of review in the selected retail outlets. This is in order to maintain consistency in price variations. Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 1.0 per cent from 210.7 points in April 2006 to 208.6 points in May 2006. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 14.9 per cent in April 2006 to 13.1 per cent in May 2006. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket also eased from 5.0 per cent to 4.7 per cent. Table 1 shows percentage changes in indices of broad categories of items in the month of May 2006 compared to April 2006 (previous month).