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Education costs increased because educational centers increased their monthly fees.
The second item affecting most consumer prices was "Hotels, Coffee Shops and Restaurants", where prices increased 1.7%, mostly due to the increase in the raw materials used by these goods.
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March 2012
The inter-annual inflation rate is 1.59% higher than February 2011.
The Central Bank of Nicaragua announced that the accumulated inflation rate in the first two months of the year amounted to 1.36% and inter-annual inflation stood at 8.81%, 1.59 percentage points higher than in February 2011.
December 2011
In November 2011, the rate of change in the Consumer Price Index continued downwards, settling at 5.4%.
According to information from the Central Bank of Honduras:
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for November 2011 showed a variation of 0.4% (0.8% in the same month of 2010) which led biannual and cumulative inflation to stand at 5.4% each, and the average of 12 months at 6.8%.
October 2008
In September inflation grew by 0.1% and reached accumulated to 10.2% this year in Honduras.
A report from the Central Bank of Honduras (BCH) on the Consumer Price Index (PCI) also showed that the inter-annual inflation was at 13.7% in September.
Accumulated inflation in 2007 in Honduras was at 6.9% and the inter-annual inflation was 8.9%, according to the BCH.
June 2010
The Consumer Prices Index grew 0.52% in May; between January and May, prices have increased an accumulated 3.16%.
Such level of inflation is higher than in the same periods of 2009, and the monthly variation for May is the highest since February. Year-on-year variation reached 6.23% in May.