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According to a first forecast for the year 2002 the output price index will decrease with approximately 3 % while the input price index will increase with 2 %.

The prices for Maintenance and repair of plants have increased with 6,5 % between August 2001 and August 2002. Input price index has increased with 0,8 % during the same period. Otherwise, the highest increase is for Machines and other equipments. Fertilizers and soil improvers is the single post with the highest decrease, 13 %, mainly due to earlier changes in prices this year.

Output price index has decreased with 3,4 % between August 2001 and August 2002. This can mainly be explained by the prices for cattle and pigs which have decreased compared with the same period last year. During this period last year the prices for cattle, pigs and cereals were higher than usual.

Price index for the Food Industry, food from price regulated agricultural products (PPI-J), and Consumer Price Index, food from price regulated agricultural products (KPI-J), have increased with 3,6 % and 3,0 % during the same period. The increase of KPI-J is 1,0 percent unit higher than the general development of consumer prices, calculated with KPI (Consumer Price Index).

Between June 2001 and June 2002 the Swedish prices for means of production in average has increased with 1,6 %, which is more than the EU-average, which was 0,4 %. On the other side Sweden had an average decrease with 4,6 % in producer prices during the same period, while the prices in EU decreased with 5,2 % in average.

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Explanation of symbols

1. Price Indices in the Food Sector.

2. Input Price Index.

3. Output Price Index.

4. Price Index for the Food Industry, food from price regulated agricultural products.

5. Consumer Price Index, food from price regulated agricultural products.

6. Input Price Index for the EU market.

7. Output Price Index for the EU market.

8. Price trends for certain means of production (elementary indices from Input Price Index).

9. Producer prices for crop products (SEK per 100 kg).

10. Producer prices for animal products (SEK per 100 kg).

11. Mean producer prices for slaughtered livestock (SEK per 100 kg).