Islamabad August 19 2022: The SPI for the current week ended on 18th August, 2022 recorded an increase of 3.35% to reach 42.31% on year on year basis.
Increase is observed in the prices of food items, Tomatoes (20.28%), Chicken (7.57%), Onions (2.30%), Powdered Milk (2.03%), Eggs (1.63%), Pulse Moong (1.42%) and Potatoes (1.07%), non-food items, Electricity for Q1 (6.83%), Petrol (2.96%) and Cigarette (1.69%). ii. On the other hand, a decrease observed in the prices of LPG (3.46%), Vegetable Ghee 1Kg (1.16%), Garlic (0.94%), Mustard Oil (0.71%), Pulse Masoor (0.42%), Pulse Gram (0.36%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5Kg (0.33%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (0.31%), Diesel (0.18%), Firewood Whole (0.16%) and Sugar (0.03%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 25 (49.01%) items increased, 11 (21.57%) items decreased and 15 (29.42%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 42.31%, Pulse Masoor (111.02%), Diesel (108.77%), Petrol (94.53%), Onions (94.43%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (72.96%), Mustard Oil (71.08%), Chicken (69.04%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (68.56%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (67.05%), Electricity for Q1 (63.03%), Washing Soap (61.92%), Pulse Gram (58.93%), Gents Sponge Chappal (52.21%), Pulse Mash (51.51%) and Garlic (36.59%). while a decrease observed in the prices of Chilies Powder (43.42%), Sugar (16.55%) and Gur (1.96%).
