The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose in November in the country as a whole to 2.4% year-on-year, six tenths more than the previous month, and to 2.2% in the Canary Islands, where it registered a monthly increase of 0.4%, reaching 2.1% so far this year.
Clothing and footwear, on the one hand, and housing, on the other, have been the most inflationary items in the Canary Islands in the last month, rising to 1.7 and 1.5%, respectively, while leisure and culture have registered a decrease of 1.7%.
In annual terms, the largest increases have been concentrated in housing, with an increase of 6.6%, and in alcoholic beverages and tobacco, which have increased by 4.7%, while hotels, cafes and restaurants have increased their prices by 4.2%, according to data released this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
So far this year, housing and alcoholic beverages and tobacco have been the sectors where prices have grown the most in the Canary Islands, specifically 5.7 and 4.5%, respectively, while leisure and culture has been the only one in which they have fallen, 1.1%.