Did the price of pharmaceuticals really rise by 5.6% in Q1 2018?
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) Mar 2018 summary notes a +5.6% increase in the price of pharmaceutical products as contributing to the overall +0.4% rise reported for the quarter. The CPI is the official measure of inflation in the Australia economy and is the non-seasonally adjusted ‘All groups CPI’ weighted average of […]