Prices of products and services used for personal consumption, measured by the CPI, were up in December 2010 by 3.1 per cent y/y in BH, data from the statistics agency show.

Prices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco were up the most – by 11.9 per cent; they increased by average 6.9 per cent in telecommunications, by 5.4 per cent in transport, by 3.9 per cent in the group of food and non-alcoholic beverages, 3.9 per cent in housing, etc.

Month on month, living costs were higher by 0.8 per cent, and the most so for food and non-alcoholic beverages (+2 per cent) and transport (+1.3 per cent).