ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based weekly inflation for the week ended on November 10 for the combined consumption group witnessed an increase of 0.74 percent compared to the previous week.
The SPI for the week under review in the group mentioned above was recorded at 216.48 points against 214.88 points registered in the previous week, according to the latest data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) here on Friday.
As compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined consumption group in the week under review witnessed an increase of 29.34 percent.
The weekly SPI with the base year 2015-16 =100 covers 17 urban centers and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.
The SPI for the lowest consumption group up to Rs 17,732 witnessed a 1.11 percent increase and went up to 225.03 points from last week’s 222.55 points.
Meanwhile, the SPI for the consumption groups from Rs 17,732-22,888; Rs 22,889-29,517; Rs 29,518-44,175, and above Rs 44,175 witnessed an increase of 1 percent, 0.87 percent, 0.80 percent, and 0.61 percent respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 22 (43.14%) items increased, 14 (24.45%) items decreased, and 15 (29.41%) items remained stable.
The items which recorded a decrease in their average prices on a week-on-week (WoW) basis included tomatoes (6.37%), pulse gram (2.02%), pulse masoor (1.50%), pulse moong (0.90%), cooking oil 5 liters (0.89%), gur (0.72%), vegetable ghee 1 kg (0.63%), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (0.56%), wheat flour (0.30%), LPG (0.26%) and garlic (0.24%).
The commodities which recorded an increase in their average prices included onions (27.16%), potatoes (5.31%), tea Lipton (4.62%), bananas (4.38%), sugar (3.60%), eggs (2.13%), chicken (1.98%), long cloth 57″ (1.21%) and firewood (1.21%).
On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the commodities that witnessed a decrease in prices included chilies powder (41.85%), sugar (8.90%), gur (6.87%), electricity for q1 (2.67%) and LPG (0.25%)
The commodities that witnessed an increase in prices on a YoY basis included onions (292.30%), diesel (64.57%), pulse gram (59.69%), pulse moong (54.66%), petrol (53.85%), gents sponge chappal (52.21%), bananas (52.18%), tea packet (50.39%), washing soap (50.37%), pulse mash (49.58%), cooking oil 5 liters (46.71%), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (46.02%) and salt powdered & pulse masoor (45.03%). APP
