The consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.5% in October in the Canary Islands, according to data published this Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
By sectors, prices in the islands rose mainly in housing, by 5.8%, hotels, cafes, and restaurants, by 4.9%, alcoholic beverages and tobacco, by 3.2%, and others, 3.1%, the INE details.
In Spain as a whole, the CPI rebounded in October to 3.1% year-on-year, also due mainly to the housing group, which experienced an increase of 7.5%.
In the archipelago, in any case, prices rose in all groups except clothing and footwear, which recorded a slight decrease of 0.5%.
Conversely, prices rose in medicine (2.5%), food and non-alcoholic beverages (2%), communications (1.8%), education (1.6%), transport (1.4%), and household goods and leisure and culture (0.2% in both cases).
The CPI recorded increases in all autonomous communities in October, with the Canary Islands having the second-lowest rate in the entire country, only above that experienced in Murcia, at 2.2%.
The Balearic Islands and the Community of Madrid presented the highest rates, with increases of 3.6% in both cases.
