The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended onNovember 10, recorded an increase of 0.74 percent due to an increase inprices of food items.
Food items that observed an increase included onions (27.16 percent),potatoes (5.31 percent), tea Lipton (4.62 percent), bananas (4.38 percent),sugar (3.60 percent), eggs (2.13 percent), chicken (1.98 percent), non-foodlong cloth 57″ (1.21 percent) and firewood (1.21 percent), says thePakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).ALSO READ
The year-on-year trend depicts an increase of 29.24 percent mainly due toan increase in the prices of onions (292.30 percent), diesel (64.57percent), pulse gram (59.69 percent), pulse moong (54.66 percent), petrol(53.85 percent), gents sponge chappal (52.21 percent), bananas (52.18percent), tea Lipton (50.39 percent), washing soap (50.37 percent), pulsemash (49.58 percent), cooking oil 5 liter (46.71 percent), vegetable ghee2.5 kg (46.02 percent) and salt powdered & pulse masoor (45.03 percent),while a decrease was observed in the prices of chilies powder (41.85percent), sugar (8.90 percent), gur (6.87 percent), electricity for q1(2.67 percent) and LPG (0.25 percent).
The SPI for the week under review in the above-mentioned group was recordedat 216.48 points against 214.88 points registered in the previous week,according to the latest PBS data released on Friday.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 22 items increased (43.14percent), 14 items decreased (24.45 percent) and 15 items remained stable(29.41 percent).ALSO READ
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The SPI for the consumption group up to Rs. 17,732, Rs. 17,732-22,888, Rs.22,889-29,517, Rs. 29,518-44,175, and for above increased by 1.11 percent,1 percent, 0.87 percent, 0.80 percent, and 0.61 percent respectively.
The items, which recorded an increase in their average prices during theweek over the previous include onions (27.16 percent), potatoes (5.31percent), tea Lipton yellow label 190-gram packet each (4.62 percent),bananas (4.38 percent), sugar (3.60 percent), eggs (2.13 percent), chicken(1.98 percent), firewood whole 40 kg (1.21 percent), long cloth 57″ GulAhmed/Al Karam (1.21 percent), bread plain (0.69 percent), georgette (0.67percent), rice irri-6/9 (0.66 percent), Sufi washing soap 250 gm (0.55percent), curd (0.46 percent), tea prepared (0.44 percent), salt powdered(0.44 percent), powdered milk Nido 390 gram polybag each (0.29 percent),shirting (0.19 percent), milk fresh (0.17 percent), cooked daal (0.14percent), mustard oil (0.04 percent) and toilet soap Lifebuoy 115 gram each(0.03 percent).
