RBA: Measures of Consumer Price Inflation

Measures of Consumer Price Inflation

Last updated: 25 January 2012

Year-ended percentage change
Date	Consumer price index						Other consumer price measures
	All groups	Excluding volatile items	Market prices excluding volatile items				Based on seasonally adjusted quarterly price changes
	All groups	Excluding volatile items	Goods	Services	Total	Private consumption chain price index	Weighted median	Trimmed mean
Sources: ABS Cat Nos 5206.0 and 6401.0.
2008/09
Sep	5.0	4.6	3.2	6.2	4.4	5.3	5.1	4.8
Dec	3.7	4.1	2.6	5.4	3.8	5.3	4.7	4.4
Mar	2.5	3.2	3.0	2.5	2.8	4.6	4.6	4.1
Jun	1.5	2.5	2.8	0.7	2.0	3.7	4.2	3.6
2009/10
Sep	1.3	2.4	2.8	−0.3	1.5	2.5	3.8	3
Dec	2.1	2.4	2.6	0.1	1.6	2.4	3.8	3.2
Mar	2.9	2.9	1.4	2.7	1.9	2.6	3.4	3.1
Jun	3.1	2.9	1.6	2.7	2.0	2.9	3.2	2.7
2010/11
Sep	2.8	3.0	1.8	2.5	2.1	2.8	2.8	2.6
Dec	2.7	2.5	1.5	1.7	1.6	2.3	2.6	2.2
Mar	3.3	2.6	1.7	2.0	1.8	2.7	2.6	2.2
Jun	3.6	2.5	1.1	2.8	1.8	2.7	2.8	2.6
2011/12
Sep	3.5	2.3	0.3	3.5	1.6	2.6	2.7	2.4
Dec	3.1	2.5	0.3	4.3	1.9		2.6	2.6

Quarterly percentage change
Date	Consumer price index						Other consumer price measures
	All groups	Excluding volatile items	Market prices excluding volatile items				Based on seasonally adjusted quarterly price changes
	All groups	Excluding volatile items	Goods	Services	Total	Private consumption chain price index	Weighted median	Trimmed mean
Sources: ABS Cat Nos 5206.0 and 6401.0.
2008/09
Sep	1.2	1.1	0.5	1.8	1.0	1.8	1.2	1.3
Dec	−0.3	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.5	0.8	0.9	0.7
Mar	0.1	0.3	0.9	−1.8	−0.2	0.9	1.2	0.9
Jun	0.5	0.6	1.0	−0.1	0.5	0.2	0.8	0.7
2009/10
Sep	1.0	1.0	0.5	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.7
Dec	0.5	0.5	0.2	1.1	0.6	0.5	0.9	0.8
Mar	0.9	0.8	−0.3	0.8	0.2	1.1	0.9	0.8
Jun	0.6	0.6	1.1	−0.1	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4
2010/11
Sep	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.5
Dec	0.4	0.1	−0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.5
Mar	1.6	0.9	−0.1	1.1	0.4	1.4	0.8	0.8
Jun	0.9	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.8	0.8
2011/12
Sep	0.6	0.8	0.0	1.3	0.5	0.7	0.4	0.4
Dec	0.0	0.3	−0.1	1.1	0.3		0.5	0.6