Islamabad March 10 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 09th March, 2023 recorded increase of 1.37% to reach 42.27% on year on year, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (12.43%), Potatoes (11.37%), Onions (9.26%), Sugar (5.48%), Bananas (5.31%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (4.27%), Wheat Flour (4.06%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (4.01%), Curd (1.89%), Milk Fresh (1.82%), Tea Lipton (1.79%), Rice Basmati Broken (1.24%) and Salt Powdered (1.21%), non-food items, Lawn Printed (2.00%) and Shirting (1.45%).
On the other hand decrease is observed in the prices of Chicken (6.73%), Garlic (2.07%), Pulse Moong (0.83%), Eggs (0.77%), Pulse Masoor (0.50%), LPG (0.26%), Fire wood (0.12%) and Pulse Gram (0.05%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 29 (56.86%) items increased, 08 (15.69%) items decreased and 14 (27.45%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 42.27%, Onions (305.23%), Cigarettes (165.86%), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38%), Diesel (93.82%), Eggs (78.63%), Rice Irri-6/9 (78.14%), Petrol (77.89%), Rice Basmati Broken (77.27%), Bananas (74.01%), Pulse Moong (72.54%), Tea Lipton (66.31%), Pulse Mash (56.02%), Pulse Gram (55.97%) and Bread (55.36%), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (41.79%), Chillies Powdered (7.42%) and Electricity charges for Q1 (6.64%)
