Week-On-Week: SPI falls 0.20%
SPI for the combined income group fell 0.42%
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ISLAMABAD:
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended July 20, 2017 registered a decrease of 0.19% for the combined income group, going down from 220.9 points in the previous week to 219.03 in the week under review.
Compared to the corresponding week of the previous year, the SPI for the combined income group fell 0.42%. The SPI for the lowest income group decreased 0.13% compared to the previous week.
The index for the group stood at 208.57 points against 208.84 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, July 22nd, 2017.
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended July 20, 2017 registered a decrease of 0.19% for the combined income group, going down from 220.9 points in the previous week to 219.03 in the week under review.
Compared to the corresponding week of the previous year, the SPI for the combined income group fell 0.42%. The SPI for the lowest income group decreased 0.13% compared to the previous week.
The index for the group stood at 208.57 points against 208.84 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, July 22nd, 2017.