Week-On-Week: SPI falls 0.32%
Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 3.22%
ISLAMABAD:
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended December 17 registered a fall of 0.32% over the previous week for the lowest income group. The SPI for the group stood at 209.35 points against 210.03 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The SPI for the combined income group fell 0.13% from 218.82 points in the previous week to 218.53 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 3.22%. During the week, average prices of 10 items fell in a selected basket of goods, prices of 19 items rose and rates of remaining 24 goods recorded no change.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2015.
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