The monthly change rate for March, according to Baah Wadieh, a Deputy Government Statistician, was 0.8 percent.
After recording 43.9 percent inflation in February, the utilities sub-sector (16.28 percent share of all-industry) fell 0.5 percentage points to record a year-on-year inflation of 43.4 percent.
“Manufacturing, the highest industry sector with 69.75 of all industry, which had recorded an inflation rate of 9.8 percent in February, rose 0.3 percentage points to record a yearly inflation rate of 10.1 percent,” said Wadieh.
Mining and quarrying, with 13.97 percent share in all-industry, also fell by 1.6 percentage points to record a 6.9 percent inflation year-on-year in March, added the statistician. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
