Abu Dhabi: Consumer prices in the emirate went up 2.54 per cent in the first seven months of the year, the Abu Dhabi Statistics Centre said on Saturday.
The survey shows that prices for housing, water, electricity and fuel have been the largest contributors to the overall price increase.
The main cause was a rise of 5.7 per cent in house rents, which make up 87.7 per cent of the total weight of the price basket.
The next highest contributor to the overall year-over-year increase in the consumer price index (CPI), over the first seven months of 2010, was the food and non-alcoholic beverages group.
These accounted for 30.2 per cent of the rise, due to price increases of foods like sugar, jam, honey and chocolate.
Confectionery surged 35.4 per cent, while meat prices grew by 11.2 per cent, vegetables by 9.1 per cent, fish and seafood by 4.7 per cent, coffee, tea and cocoa by 2.7 per cent and fruit by 1.8 per cent.
Educational fees accounted for 22.1 per cent of the overall increase during the first seven months of 2010, reflecting a rise of more the 20 per cent.
The percentage year-over-year rise in the CPI for July 2010 was 2.75 per cent and the month-to-month rise, compared to June 2010, was 0.4 per cent, the Statistics Centre said.
