Week-On-Week: SPI falls 0.49%

The SPI for the lowest income group increased 0.54%

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended March 16, 2017 registered a decrease of 0.49% for the combined income group, going up from 222.28 points in the previous week to 223.36 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of the previous year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 4.08%. The SPI for the lowest income group also increased 0.54% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 213.14 points against 212 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 20 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of 11 items fell and rates of remaining 22 goods recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2017.

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