Manila, Feb. 13 -- The January 2025 inflation rate for all income households in Negros Occidental province decreased to 2.7 percent while it expanded to 3.3 percent in Bacolod City, data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Thursday showed.

In December, Negros Occidental posted an inflation rate of 3.7 percent while Bacolod City logged 2.4 percent.

The main sources of deceleration in Negros Occidental are restaurants and accommodation services, which remained at 9.7 percent, and food and non-alcoholic beverages, from 2.9 percent in December to 1.4 percent in January.

Meanwhile, the major contributors to January inflation are food and non-alcoholic beverages at only 1.4 percent, with 66.3 percent share to overall inf...