Combined Income Group: Inflation rises 0.22% week-on-week

SPI registered a rise of 1.33% over the previous week for the lowest income group.


Our Correspondent December 19, 2014

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended December 18 registered a rise of 1.33% over the previous week for the lowest income group. The SPI for the group stood at 203.45 points against 203.37 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The SPI for the combined income group increased 0.22% from 211.25 points in the previous week to 211.71 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group dropped 0.94%. During the week, average prices of 16 items in a selected basket of goods fell, prices of five items rose and rates of remaining 32 recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2014.

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