CAMIGUIN (PIA) — The inflation rate in Camiguin eased to 2.5 percent in February 2025, down from 2.6 percent in January 2025.
The slowdown was driven by a 1.6 percent decline in the index for housing, water, electricity, gas, and other fuels. Slower annual increases were also observed in alcoholic beverages and tobacco (6.8%), clothing and footwear (4.0%), furnishings, household equipment, and routine household maintenance (2.6%), transport (18.9%), information and communication (0.8%), recreation, sport, and culture (2.1%), restaurants and accommodation services (6.7%), and personal care and miscellaneous goods and services (2.2%).
However, the commodity groups of food and non-alcoholic beverages, and health, posted faster rates of increase with 0.1 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, the deceleration in food inflation was primarily driven by a 4.2 percent decrease in rice, which has the largest weight in the food index. Other food items that recorded declines include cereals and cereal products (-2.9%), meat and other parts of slaughtered land animals (-0.3%), and fish and other seafood (-2.3%).
Slower increases were also seen in items such as milk, other dairy products, and eggs (3.4%), oils and fats (7.3%), vegetables, tubers, cooking bananas, and pulses (7.5%), and ready-made food and other food products (4.4%).
Conversely, faster price increases were noted in flour, bread, and other bakery products; pasta products; and other cereals (3.0%); fruits and nuts (6.6%); and sugar, confectionery, and desserts (2.7%). (PSA Camiguin/PIA-10/Camiguin)
