HIGHEST INFLATION OF 8.6% REGISTERED IN EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNICATION SERVICE SECTOR IN FIRST HALF OF 2006
Noyan Tapan
Aug 10 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The total amount of services delivered
in January-June 2006 at current prices made 204 bln 809.9 mln drams
(about 461.4 mln USD), increasing by 21.1% on the index of January-June
2005. According to the RA National Statistical Service, a 3.1% growth
in tariffs was registered in the service sector in January-June 2006
on the same months of last year, which was mainly conditioned by an
increase in tariffs of such services as hotel and restaurant (3.9%),
municipal (1.9%), social (1.9%), educational (8.6%), communication
(12.7%) and transport services (3.6%). Transport services of 43 bln
945.5 mln drams and communication services of 54 bln 847.4 mln drams
accounted for 21.4% and 26.8% of the services provided in the first
half of 2006. The share of services in other sectors was as follows:
financial services of 13 bln 972.9 mln drams – 6.8%, educational
services of 14 bln 18.7 mln drams – 6.8%, healt care services of 13
bln 391.6 mln drams – 6.5% and restaurant and hotel services of 8 bln
653.3 mln drams – 4.2%. Services delivered in Yerevan (176 mln 471.9
mln drams) accounted for 86.2% of the total amount of services in
January-June 2006, while services in other Armenian marzes (28 bln
338 mln drams) – for 13.8%.
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