Islamabad August 12 2022: The SPI for the current week ended on 11th August, 2022 recorded a decrease of 0.08%, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Decrease observed in the prices of food items, Onions (10.18%), Bananas (2.71%), Chicken (1.03%), Vegetable Ghee 1Kg (0.79%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (0.55%), Mustard Oil (0.36%), Rice Basmati Broken (0.33%) and Cooking Oil 5 litre (0.17%), non-food item, LPG (1.10%), with joint impact of (-0.35%) into the overall SPI for combined group of (-0.08%).
On the other hand, an increase observed in the prices of Tomatoes (10.35%), Salt (3.73%), Eggs (3.67%), Pulse Mash (3.65%), Pulse Moong (3.18%), Pulse Masoor (2.13%), Garlic (2.03%), Firewood (1.36%) and Tea Lipton (1.29%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 26 (50.98%) items increased, 09 (17.65%) items decreased and 16 (31.37%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 37.69%, Pulse Masoor (111.90%), Diesel (109.15%), Onions (90.05%), Petrol (88.94%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (73.50%), Mustard Oil (72.31%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (70.54%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (67.61%), Washing Soap (61.92%), Pulse Gram (59.51%), Chicken (57.14%), Electricity for Q1 (52.61%), Gents Sponge Chappal (52.21%), Pulse Mash (51.08%) and Garlic (37.88%), while a decrease observed in the prices of Chillies Powder (43.42%), Sugar (16.52%) and Gur (2.60%).
