Week-On-Week: SPI increases 0.4%

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended January 10, 2019 registered an increase of 0.4% for the combined income group, going up from 237.85 points in the prior week to 238.81 in the week under review. However, the SPI for the combined income group rose 6.19% compared to the corresponding week of previous year. The SPI for the lowest income group rose 0.51% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 221.23 points against 220.11 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 24 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of four items fell and rates of remaining 25 goods recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 12^th, 2019.

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