Producer Price Indices Second Quarter 2015

Abstract

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics hereby releases the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the June quarter of 2015. Producer Price Index measures the gross changes in the trading price of products on the domestic and the nondomestic markets, at all stages of processing. The price changes are measured from the perspective of the producer. The producer prices are collected as at 15th February, 15th May, 15th August and 15th November of the year. These dates corresponds to the first, second, third and fourth quarters respectively. The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) stopped operations in September 2013. As such, the weights have been re-adjusted accordingly.

As shown in Table 1, the Producer Price Indices are grouped according to the International Standards of Industrial Classifications of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Rev 4. The overall producer prices increased by 1.22 per cent in the second quarter of 2015 compared to an increase of 1.31 per cent recorded in the first quarter of 2015. The ‘year on year’ PPI inflation, from June 2014 to June 2015 was 1.98 per cent.