Islamabad February 18 2022: The SPI for the current week ended on 17th February, 2022 recorded an increase of 0.22 percent.
Increase in the prices of food items Garlic (10.53 percent), Tomatoes (4.35 percent), Bananas (4.28 percent), Chicken (2.89 percent), Cooked Daal (1.94 percent) and Vegetable Ghee 2.5kg (1.08 percent) and non-food items Petrol (8.12 percent), Diesel (6.52 percent), Match Box (2.17 percent) and Long Cloth (1.50 percent) was observed with joint impact of (1.21 percent) into the overall SPI for combined group of (0.22 percent).
On the other hand, decrease is observed in the prices of Chillies Powdered (5.41 percent), Eggs (5.31 percent), Electricity for Q1 (5.20 percent), Onions (1.39 percent), Potatoes (0.89 percent), Gur (0.82 percent), Sugar (0.59 percent), Wheat Flour (0.27 percent), LPG (0.17 percent), Pulse Moong (0.11 percent), and Pulse Mash (0.08 percent).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 28 (54.90 percent) items increased, 11 (21.57 percent) items decreased and 12 (23.53 percent) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 18.09 percent, in Tomatoes (322.87 percent), Electricity for Q1 (65.79 percent), Garlic (60.98 percent), LPG (55.11 percent), Mustard Oil (48.44 percent), Petrol (42.28 percent), Cooking Oil 5 litre (41.81 percent), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (39.13 percent), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (38.97 percent), Washing Soap (38.40 percent), Pulse Masoor (37.19 percent) and Diesel (32.26 percent), while major decrease observed in the prices of Chillies Powdered (36.30 percent), Pulse Moong (28.43 percent), Chicken (9.77 percent), Sugar (5.72 percent), Onions (3.84 percent) and Potatoes (0.38 percent).
