ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI)-based weekly inflation increased by 0.21 per cent during the week ended on October 1, for the combined consumption group, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.
According to PBS data, the SPI for the week under review rose to 370.46 points from 369.69 points recorded in the previous week. On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the SPI increased by 11.53 per cent.
The weekly SPI, with base year 2015-16=100, covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.
The SPI for the lowest consumption group (up to Rs17,732) increased by 0.19 per cent to 354.73 points from 354.06.
Likewise, the SPI for consumption groups of Rs17,733-22,888, Rs22,889-29,517, Rs29,518-44,175 and above Rs44,175 increased by 0.2 per cent, 0.21 per cent, 0.22 per cent and 0.21 per cent respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 20 items (39.21 per cent) increased, 10 items (19.61 per cent) decreased, while 21 items (41.18 per cent) remained unchanged.
On a week-on-week (WoW) basis, the items that witnessed an increase in prices included chicken, which rose by 7.25 percent, followed by garlic (1.85 per cent), pulse gram (1.3 per cent), LPG (1.17 per cent), eggs (0.72 per cent), rice IRRI-6/9 (0.55 per cent), onions (0.39 per cent), washing soap (0.33 per cent), wheat flour (0.29 per cent), long cloth (0.19 per cent) and lawn printed (0.19 per cent).
On the other hand, the prices of diesel decreased by 3.43 per cent, bananas (1.52 per cent), sugar (1.05 per cent), potatoes (0.96 per cent), petrol (0.65 per cent), pulse moong (0.63 per cent), tomatoes (0.51 per cent), pulse masoor (0.42 per cent), gur (0.12 per cent) and powdered milk (0.1 per cent).
On a YoY basis, major increases were observed in the prices of onions (114.2 per cent), LPG (66.59%), electricity charges for Q1 (58.59 per cent), diesel (44.5 per cent), wheat flour (32.65 per cent), chilies powder (15.55 per cent), mutton (15.07 per cent), chicken (13.6 per cent), beef (12.9 per cent), bread plain (8.96 per cent) and milk fresh (8.1 per cent).
On the other hand, decrease was observed in the prices of tomatoes (45.52 per cent), potatoes (39.54 per cent), sugar (21.95 per cent), eggs (17.47 per cent), salt powder (14.81 per cent), pulse masoor (10.92 per cent), pulse gram (9.9 per cent) and pulse moong (8.2 per cent).
