{"id":355,"date":"2013-07-19T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-01T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:01:51","slug":"contentrising-rents-put-pressure-cost-living-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Rising rents put pressure on cost of living in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rents have been rising, putting pressure on the cost of living in the country, consumer price index (CPI) figures released yesterday reflect.<br \/>\nCPI data for June 2013 show rents surged 6.8 percent year-on-year in the month, slightly up from 6.5 percent in May.<br \/>\nRising rents, therefore, kept the annual consumer inflation in the country above three percentage points to 3.4 in June.<br \/>\nAnnual inflation was 3.5 percent in May, data released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics suggest.<br \/>\nThe marginal decline in inflation in June over May was due to a two percent reduction in the prices of miscellaneous goods and services.<br \/>\nThis is the first CPI report by the ministry which was created recently, incorporating the national statistics agency and the national development planning office.<br \/>\nThe Qatar Statistics Authority earlier issued the inflation data.<br \/>\nRent is clubbed with fuel and energy in the CPI basket and they together have the largest weight (32.2 percent) in the CPI.<br \/>\nHowever, the highest annual increase was recorded in \u2018entertainment, recreation and culture\u2019 at 8.1 percent in June.<\/p>\n<p>Source:The Peninsula<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rents have been rising, putting pressure on the cost of living in the country, consumer price index (CPI) figures released yesterday reflect.<br \/>\nCPI data for June 2013 show rents surged 6.8 percent year-on-year in the month, slightly up from 6.5 percent in May.<br \/>\nRising rents, therefore, kept the annual consumer inflation in the country above three percentage points to 3.4 in June.<br \/>\nAnnual inflation was 3.5 percent in May, data released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qatar_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}