Islamabad February 3 2023: The SPI for the current week ended on 02nd February, 2023 recorded an increase of 2.82 which depicts an increase of 34.49 percent on year on year basis, revealed on Friday by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Garlic (17.07 percent), Pulse Gram (7.10 percent), Bananas (4.75 percent), Chicken (4.37 percent), Pulse Mash (3.93 percent), Pulse Masoor (3.91 percent), Mustard Oil (3.47 percent), Eggs (3.42 percent), Pulse Moong (2.33 percent), Sugar (2.32 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (2.13 percent) and Rice Basmati Broken (2.12 percent), non-food items, LPG (17.61 percent), Petrol (16.22 percent) and Diesel (15.30 percent).
On the other hand decrease is observed in the price of Potatoes (0.37 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 32 (62.75 percent) items increased, 01 (1.96 percent) items decreased and 18 (35.29 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 34.49 percent, Onions (556.36 percent), Chicken (90.88 percent), Eggs (81.69 percent), Diesel (81.41 percent), Petrol (68.77 percent), Tea Lipton (63.92 percent), Rice Basmati Broken (63.44 percent), Rice Irri-6/9 (62.36 percent), Pulse Moong (61.11 percent), Bananas (57.38 percent), Pulse Gram (53.18 percent), Bread (48.80 percent), Wheat Flour (48.35 percent), Salt Powdered (48.14 percent), Pulse Mash (46.17 percent), LPG (43.76 percent), Mustard Oil (42.09 percent) and Washing Soap (41.96 percent), while decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (61.98 percent), Chillies Powdered (15.32 percent), Electricity for Q1 (12.31 percent) and Gur (0.27 percent).
