Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi (SCAD) stated in its report on Consumer Price Index (CPI) that the average rise in consumer prices for the first nine months of 2011 was 2.2 per cent, compared with the same period of 2010.

From September 2010 to September 2011 average consumer prices rose by 1.0 per cent, while from August 2011 to September 2011, average consumer prices rose by 0.4 per cent.

It added that the consumer prices for households of the bottom welfare quintile increased by 4.2 per cent during the first nine months of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010. The corresponding rise for other welfare levels was 1.5 per cent for households of the top quintile and 2.8 per cent for the middle quintile.

During the first nine months of 2011 consumer prices for national households increased by 2.2 per cent, 1.9 per cent for non-national households and 3.8 per cent for collective households.

The inflation rate for the third quarter of 2011 compared with the third quarter of 2010 was 1.6 per cent.

During the first nine months of 2011, average consumer prices rose by 2.2 per cent compared with the same period of 2010.

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