(Repeats story published on Oct 2)
* WHAT: September consumer inflation, unemployment
* WHEN: October 8, 0700 GMT
* Consumer prices seen down 0.4 percent month-on-month, up 2.8 percent year-on-year. End-September unemployment seen at 6.3 percent.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech inflation is expected to have accelerated to a 13-month high in September, according to a Reuters poll on Tuesday, which added to the chances of a further interest rate increase before the end of this year.
Fourteen analysts in the survey forecast the unemployment rate to have matched a decade low last month, pointing to tight conditions in the labour market, which has raised inflationary concerns at the Czech central bank (CNB).
The consumer price index (CPI), a broad gauge of inflation targeted by the CNB, is expected to drop 0.4 percent in September from August <CZCPI=ECI> due to a seasonal decline in recreation prices, according to the survey's median forecast.
However, a shallower drop in holiday prices versus last year and continued increases in food and tobacco prices would take the annual inflation rate <CZCPIY=ECI> to 2.8 percent from 2.4 percent in August, its highest since 3.1 percent in August 2006.
"The year-on-year figure will continue to rise -- with food, tobacco and housing costs all playing roles," said Lauren Van Biljon, an economist with 4Cast consultancy in London, who estimated September's annual inflation rate at 2.7 percent.
"A stronger crown will help contain inflation somewhat, but whether it will be able to fully offset higher oil prices is unclear," she added.
The crown has gained nearly 5 percent since July and hit a lifetime high to the euro in mid-September.
The inflation data are due for release on Oct. 8, along with end-September unemployment numbers and August foreign trade balance <CZFTB=ECI>.
The analysts' median forecast was for the jobless rate <CZUNR=ECI> to dip to 6.3 percent of the workforce at end-September from August's 6.4 percent, matching June's decade low of 6.3 percent.
The CNB last raised its main two-week repo rate <CZCBIR=ECI> to a five-year high of 3.25 percent in August, its sixth hike since lifting benchmark credit costs from an all-time low of 1.75 percent in October 2005.
Markets are bracing for at least one more quarter-point rate increase before the year-end, as both market analysts and CNB staff forecasters expect inflation to near the 4 percent upper edge of the CNB's comfort zone by December.
TABLE OF FORECASTS FOR DATA DUE OUT IN OCTOBER...[]
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Keywords: CZECH ECONOMY/
