Week-on-week: SPI falls 0.09%
The SPI for the combined income group rose 1.94%
ISLAMABAD:
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended July 28 registered a fall of 0.09% for the combined income group, going down from 219.96 points in the previous week to 219.77 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 1.94%. The SPI for the lowest income group increased 0.03% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 211.09 points against 211.02 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 15 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of nine items fell and rates of remaining 29 goods recorded no change.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 30th, 2016.
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended July 28 registered a fall of 0.09% for the combined income group, going down from 219.96 points in the previous week to 219.77 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 1.94%. The SPI for the lowest income group increased 0.03% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 211.09 points against 211.02 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 15 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of nine items fell and rates of remaining 29 goods recorded no change.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 30th, 2016.