Islamabad June 2 2023: Pakistan household inflation, the SPI, for the current week ended on 01st Jun, 2023 increased paltry by 0.03 percent to 42.67 percent on year on year basis, revealed by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Onions (7.31 percent), Potatoes (2.89 percent), Chicken (2.87 percent), Tea Prepared (1.56 percent), Tomatoes (1.11 percent), Salt Powdered (1.08 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 & Beef (1.00 percent) each and non-food item, Energy Saver (2.16 percent).
On the other hand major decrease is observed in the prices of LPG (4.46 percent), Wheat Flour (4.06 percent), Bananas (4.04 percent), Petrol (2.96 percent), Eggs (2.57 percent), Diesel (1.94 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 kg (1.87 percent), Mustard Oil (1.57 percent), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (1.35 percent), Pulse Moong (1.27 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 2.5 kg (1.06 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 19 (37.25 percent) items increased, 14 (27.45 percent) items decreased and 18 (35.30 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 42.67 percent, Cigarettes (138.50 percent), Tea Lipton (114.93 percent), Gas Charges for Q1 (108.38 percent), Wheat Flour (105.56 percent), Bananas (88.96 percent), Potatoes (86.86 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (80.97 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (80.15 percent), Pulse Moong (60.40 percent), Bread (59.66 percent), Eggs (55.29 percent), Pulse Mash (53.70 percent), Washing Soap (48.61 percent), Petrol (45.55 percent) and Diesel (45.18 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (42.14 percent) and Onions (29.00 percent).
