Table 2
Raw materials price indexes – Not seasonally adjusted

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Raw materials price indexes – Not seasonally adjusted

Table summary
This table displays the results of raw materials price indexes – not seasonally adjusted relative importance, september 2010, august 2011, september 2011, august to september 2011 and september 2010 to september 2011, calculated using %, (2002=100) and % change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Relative importanceNote 1 September 2010 August 2011Note r: revised September 2011Note p: preliminary August to September 2011 September 2010 to September 2011
  % (2002=100) % change
Raw Materials Price Index (RMPI) 100.00 149.9 170.3 172.7 1.4 15.2
RMPI excluding mineral fuels 58.56 139.8 156.0 154.5 -1.0 10.5
Mineral fuels 41.44 164.5 190.8 198.7 4.1 20.8
Vegetable products 9.89 126.4 156.7 155.0 -1.1 22.6
Animal and animal products 19.81 110.8 125.4 121.4 -3.2 9.6
Wood 11.82 88.8 89.7 89.9 0.2 1.2
Ferrous materials 2.88 172.4 165.0 166.1 0.7 -3.7
Non-ferrous metals 11.32 244.0 273.8 273.9 0.0 12.3
Non-metallic minerals 2.82 151.8 163.8 163.8 0.0 7.9
p preliminary
r revised
Note 1.

The relative importance is based on the annual 2002 values of intermediate inputs.