Week-On-Week: SPI rises 0.06%

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended May 18, 2017 registered an increase of 0.06% for the combined income group, going up from 220.47 points in the previous week to 220.61 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of previous year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 2.77%. The SPI for the lowest income group decreased 0.02% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 209.44 points against 209.49 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 11 items fell and rates of remaining 27 goods recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 20^th, 2017.

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