February 3 (SeeNews) - Turkey's domestic industrial producer prices rose by 8.84% on the year in January, the country's statistical office said on Monday.
Month-on-month, the domestic market industrial producer price index (PPI) increased by 1.84% in January, TurkStat said in a statement.
The domestic PPI index was up 12.76% in the mining and stone quarrying sector, 8.45% higher in manufacturing, up 13.07% in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning, and 4.27% higher in the water supply sector in January compared on the same month a year earlier.
For the main industrial groups, PPI in January rose by an annual 5.15% for intermediate goods, by 8.93% for durable consumer goods and by 13.37% for non-durable consumer goods. It was up by an annual 13.75% for energy and 8.78% higher for capital goods.
By industry subdivisions, the indices for paper and paper products fell the most on an annual basis, as the producer prices for the subdivision were down 2.23% on the year in January. The indices for wearing apparel decreased by 0.7% and fell by 0.46% for computer, electronic and optical products.
The sharpest annual rises in domestic PPI by industry subdivisions were for tobacco products - by 64.4%, for crude petroleum and natural gas - by 25.49% and for basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutic preparations - by 24.94%.