Islamabad March 3 2023: Pakistan household inflation measured by the SPI for the current week ended on 02nd March, 2023 recorded decrease of 0.30 percent, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Decrease is observed in the prices of food items, Onions (13.24 percent), Eggs (6.11 percent), Garlic (4.24 percent), Chicken (2.00 percent), Tomatoes (0.59 percent), Pulse Gram (0.38 percent) and Potatoes (0.33 percent), non-food items, LPG (1.84 percent) and Petrol (1.80 percent).
On the other hand major increase is observed in the prices of Bananas (7.34 percent), Long Cloth (3.44 percent), Energy Saver (3.33 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (2.48 percent), Gur (2.03 percent), Cooked Daal (1.87 percent), Tea Lipton (1.79 percent), Match Box (1.66 percent), Lawn Printed (1.52 percent), Cooking Oil 5 litre (1.45 percent) and Sugar (1.07 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 32 (62.75 percent) items increased, 09 (17.65 percent) items decreased and 10 (19.60 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts major increase of 41.07 percent, Onions (311.17 percent), Cigarettes (165.86 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Diesel (93.82 percent), Petrol (77.89 percent), Eggs (77.83 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (76.96 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (75.55 percent), Pulse Moong (73.30 percent), Bananas (72.66 percent), Chicken (64.70 percent) and Tea Lipton (64.53 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (56.29 percent), Chillies Powdered (7.42 percent) and Electricity charges for Q1 (6.64 percent).
