In August, headline inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 6.7 percent, down 0.3 percentage points from 7.0 percent in July. This was mainly due to a decline in transport inflation (from 12.8 percent to 10.2 percent), as well as a marginal fall in inflation for recreation and culture (from 6.2 percent to 6.1 percent). The decline in transport inflation reflects a month-on-month fall in the operation of personal transport category, due to a reduction in fuel prices. However, for most other commodity groups inflation increased, including for alcohol and tobacco (from 7.8 percent to 7.9 percent), clothing and footwear (6.4 percent to 6.7 percent), housing, water and fuels (from 7.8 percent to 7.9 percent), furnishing, household equipment and routine maintenance (from 8.3 percent to 8.7 percent), and restaurants and hotels (from 8.0 percent to 8.3 percent). Unchanged food price inflation at 3.3 percent helped stabilise overall price movements, while there was also no change for health (3.2 percent), communication (1.8 percent), education (5.8 percent) and miscellaneous goods and services (7.1 percent). The trimmed mean measure of core inflation declined by 0.4 percentage points from 7.6 percent to 7.2 percent; while, excluding administered prices, inflation rose by 0.2 percentage points to 6.3 percent from 6.1 percent.