Week-On-Week: SPI increases 0.54%

SPI for the combined income group rises 2.02% compared to the corresponding week of previous year

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended October 4, 2018 registered an increase of 0.54% for the combined income group, going up from 229.17 points in the prior week to 230.4 in the week under review. However, the SPI for the combined income group rose 2.02% compared to the corresponding week of previous year. The SPI for the lowest income group increased 0.4% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 218.27 points against 217.39 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 17 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of seven items fell and rates of remaining 29 goods recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 6^th, 2018.

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