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September 2026
Personal care and miscellaneous services
Covers personal care, personal effects, social protection and other services.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 13.1 Personal care
- 13.2 Personal effects
- 13.3 Social protection
- 13.9 Other services
Source: Stats SA, Consumer Price Index: Sources and Methods, Report No. 01-41-01 (2026), section 2.2 and Annexure 1 – CPI basket of goods and services (COICOP 2018)
Year on year
2.6%
Month on month
+0.1%
Basket weight
2.8%
Contribution to annual inflation
+0.07 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Personal care and miscellaneous services: by province
- 1KwaZulu-Natal5.4%
- 2Limpopo3.8%
- 3Eastern Cape3.6%
- 4Free State2.9%
- 5North West2.9%
- 6South Africa2.6%
- 7Northern Cape2.2%
- 8Gauteng2.1%
- 9Western Cape1.7%
- 10Mpumalanga1.4%