PETALING JAYA: The country’s services producer price index (SPPI) registered a year-on-year increase of 1% in the second quarter of 2025, up from the 0.6% rise in the previous quarter.
In a statement, the Statistics Department said the arts, entertainment and recreation index went up by 4.5%, moderating from a 6.6% increase in the previous quarter.
Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said this was mainly driven by the other amusement and recreation activities index (1.9%).
“The accommodation and food and beverage service activities index also continued its upward trend, rising by 3.6%, similar in the first quarter of 2025.
“This was supported by increases in restaurants and mobile food service activities index (4.2%) and beverage service activities index (2.7%),” he said.
Other indices that recorded increases were education (1.3%), health (0.6%) and professional (0.5%).
However, he noted the transportation index dropped by 0.8%, due to a decrease in the passenger air transport index (minus 4.8%). For context, the previous quarter saw a 3.1% drop.
“The real estate activities index also recorded a marginal decrease of 0.1%, after an increase of 0.1% in the previous month, influenced by real estate activities on a contract basis index (minus 0.1%). Meanwhile, the information and communication index remained unchanged,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mohd Uzir said on a quarter-on-quarter basis, the SPPI increased by 0.3%, maintaining the same rate as in the previous quarter.
“The increase was primarily attributed to arts, entertainment and recreation index (2%) and accommodation and food and beverage service activities (0.6%),” he said.
In addition to that, the education and transportation indices increased 0.3%.
“Other indices that contributed to the modest overall increase were health (0.2%) and professional (0.1%).
“However, information and communication and real estate activities indices remained unchanged in this quarter.”
