Islamabad July 7 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 6th July, 2023 the year on year trend depicts increase of 28.55 percent compared with 29.35 last week and 48.35 percent in May 2023, reported by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics today.
Major increase observe in prices of Wheat Flour (121.69 percent), Cigarettes (112.94 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Tea Lipton (102.86 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (77.40 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (74.61 percent), Potatoes (69.06 percent), Chicken (63.22 percent), Gents Sponge Chappal (58.05 percent), Salt Powdered (51.61 percent), Sugar (50.08 percent), Bananas (48.96 percent) and Bread (46.86 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Onions (23.94 percent), Electricity for Q1 (14.58 percent), Tomatoes (13.26 percent), Pulse Masoor (7.17 percent), Diesel (5.82 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (0.81 percent).
The SPI for the current week ended on 06th July, 2023 increased by 0.70 percent. Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (42.25 percent), Onions (8.70 percent), Potatoes (4.79 percent), Wheat Flour (4.05 percent), Gur (4.01 percent) and Sugar (3.48 percent), non-food items, Shirting (3.02 percent) and Diesel (2.95 percent). ii. On the other hand decrease is observed in the prices of Bananas (7.51 percent), Chicken (2.80 percent), Eggs (1.17 percent), LPG (0.96 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 kg (0.74 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (0.72 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (0.71 percent), Pulse Masoor (0.47 percent), Pulse Moong (0.31 percent) and Pulse Gram (0.24 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 24 (47.06 percent) items increased, 10 (19.61 percent) items decreased and 17 (33.33 percent) items remained stable.
