TIRANA, December 21/ATA/ The annual rate measured by Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices in November 2021 is 3.3 %.
According to the Institute of Statistics, the most increase of the prices it was noticed in the “Food and nonalcoholic beverages” group by 5.6 %, followed by “Transport” groups by 5.0 %, “Recreation and culture” by 3.2 %, “Communication” by 3.1 %, “Hotels, coffee-houses and restaurants” by 2.6 %, “Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels” by 2.5 %, “Alcoholic beverages and tobacco” by 1.1 %, “Health” 1.0 %, “Clothing and footwear” and “Furniture, household goods and maintenance” by 0.8 % each of them, and “Education services” by 0.1 %.
Meanwhile, prices of group “Miscellaneous goods and services” was decrease by 0.8 %.
This change was mainly influenced by the reduction of prices of the group “food and non-alcoholic beverages” by 0.8%, followed by the group “alcoholic beverages and tobacco” by 0.3%, “clothing and footwear” and “Miscellaneous goods and services” ”with 0.1% each.
Eurozone inflation is measured on the basis of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices indicator. The term “harmonized” underlines the fact that all EU countries apply the same methodology in measuring the respective indicator./p.s./
