*ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended May 12,2022 recorded an increase of 0.49 per cent mainly due to an increase inprices of food items, including wheat flour (41.78 per cent), chicken(12.13 per cent), potatoes (7.04 per cent), eggs (5.08 per cent), dalmasoor (4.79 per cent), onions (4.74 per cent) non-food items cigarettes(2.62 per cent), and matchbox (1.31 per cent), says the Pakistan Bureau ofStatistics (PBS).*
The year-on-year trend depicts an increase of 15.85 per cent, onions(160.81 per cent), tomatoes (122.92 per cent), LPG (97.34 per cent), garlic(83.51 per cent), cooking oil 5 litre (59.78 per cent), vegetable ghee 2.5Kg (59.46 per cent), vegetable ghee 1 Kg (58.43 per cent), mustard oil(58.27 per cent), pulse masoor (52.01 per cent), washing soap (39.79 percent), petrol (37.42 per cent) and diesel (29.63 per cent), while majordecrease was observed in the prices of chillies powdered (39.50 per cent),pulse moong (25.81 per cent), potatoes (20.71 per cent), electricitycharges for Q1 (14.56 per cent), bananas (14.24 per cent) and sugar (11.80per cent).
According to the latest data, the SPI went up from 171.78 per cent duringthe week ended May 5, 2022 to 172.63 per cent during the week under review.
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The SPI for the consumption groups up to Rs17,732 and Rs17,733 to Rs22,888,Rs22,889 to Rs29,517 and Rs29,518 to Rs44,175 and for above Rs44,175increased by 0.94 per cent, 0.58 per cent, 1.01 per cent, 1.12 per cent and0.41 per cent, respectively.
