ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) inflation increased by 0.79 percent during last week to 211.28 points against 209.63 points in the same period of last year.
According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the SPI decreased by 0.33 percent to 211.28 points on weekly basis as compared to 211.99 the previous week.
The weekly SPI has been computed with base 2007-2008=100, covering 17 urban centres and 53 essential items for all income groups. The SPI for the lowest income group up to Rs8,000 registered an increase of 1.42 percent during the week under review as compared to the same period last year. During the week, average prices of 11 items registered an increase and 17 registered a decrease. The prices of 25 essentials remained same during the week under review.
The 11 essential items which registered increase in prices during the week under review included chicken live, sugar, pulse gram washed, firewood, pulse Moong washed, Gur, pulse Maash washed, cooked beef, pulse Masoor washed, rice irri-6 (Punjab/Sindh) and mustard oil. The 17 items which registered decrease in prices during the week under review included tomatoes, kerosene oil, hi-speed diesel (HSD), potatoes, petrol, LPG cylinder 11-kg, bananas, cooking oil tin, vegetable ghee tin, wheat flour, bag, wheat, rice basmati broken, garlic, vegetable ghee loose, red chili powder loose, onions and eggs.
