ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation in Pakistan measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), dropped by 0.26 percent for the combined consumption groups during the week concluded on January 2, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.
According to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review in the above-mentioned group stood at 326.10 points.
As compared to the corresponding week of the previous year, the SPI for the combined consumption group in the week under review recorded an increase of 3.97 percent.
The SPI for the lowest consumption group of up to Rs 17,732 registered a decrease of 0.51 percent and dropped to 320.01 points from last week’s 321.65 points.
The SPI for consumption groups of Rs 17,732 to 22,888; Rs 22,889-29,517; Rs 29,518-44,175 and above Rs 44,175, declined by 0.59 percent, 0.28 percent, 0.10 percent, and 0.10 percent respectively.
During the week, of the 51 items monitored, prices increased for 18 items (35.29%), declined for 10 items (19.61%), and remained unchanged for 23 items (45.10%).
The commodities which registered major decrease in their average prices on a week-on-week basis included tomatoes (13.48 percent), electricity charges for q1 (7.48 percent), potatoes (5.59 percent), pulse gram (0.34 percent), eggs (0.23 percent), garlic (0.21 percent), LPG (0.18 percent), wheat flour (0.09 percent) and pulse mash (0.05 percent).
The items which recorded major increase in their average prices on week-on-week basis included chicken (10.28 percent), onions (4.93 percent), bananas (1.68 percent), diesel (1.18 percent), pulse moong (1.08 percent), sugar (0.95 percent), gur (0.58 percent), firewood (0.55 percent), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (0.53 percent), vegetable ghee 1kg (0.28 percent) and petrol (0.21 percent).
On-year basis, the commodities that recorded decrease included wheat flour (36.12 percent), onions (29.95 percent), chilies powder (20.00 percent), eggs (15.78 percent), electricity charges for q1 (13.92 percent), pulse masoor (11.24 percent), rice basmati broken (8.42 percent), diesel (6.39 percent), bread (6.01 percent), pulse mash (5.98 percent) and petrol (5.45 percent).
The commodities which recorded an increase in their average prices on year-on-year basis included tomatoes (77.84 percent), ladies sandal (75.09 percent), potatoes (66.63 percent), pulse gram (47.53 percent), pulse moong (30.73 percent), powdered milk (25.62 percent), beef (23.94 percent), garlic (17.82 percent), gas charges for q1 (15.52 percent), cooked daal (15.10 percent), shirting (14.36 percent) and firewood (13.18 percent).
