Pakistan’s weekly inflation rate went risen by 0.56%.

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said in its weekly report that the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) showed an increase of 0.56 percent for the combined consumption group for the week ending on October 02.

According to the PBS statistics, the SPI for the week in question in the group above was 332.17 points, up from 330.32 points the week before.

The SPI for the combined consumption group in the week being looked at was 4.07 percent higher than it was in the same period last year.

The weekly SPI, with 2015–16 as the base year, covers 17 urban centers and 51 necessary items for all spending groups.

The SPI for the group with the lowest consumption, which is up to Rs17,732, went risen 0.82 percent, from 322.77 points last week to 325.43 points this week.

The SPI for groups that spend between Rs17,733 and Rs22,888, Rs22,889 and Rs29,517, Rs29,518 and Rs44,175, and over Rs44,175 went up by 0.76%, 0.61%, 0.57%, and 0.49%, respectively.

Prices went up for 19 (37.25%) of the 51 goods throughout the week, down for 12 (23.53%), and stayed the same for 20 (39.22%).

The average costs of chicken (7.96%), bananas (0.78%), pulse gram (0.67%), gur (0.59%), potatoes (0.43%), LPG (0.42%), eggs (0.41%), cooking oil 5 litre (0.30%), and pulse moong (0.29%) went down the most from week to week.

The following items saw big price increases from week to week: tomatoes (46.44%), petrol (1.72%), diesel (1.45%), garlic (1.41%), onions (1.22%), chilies powder (0.72%), mutton (0.59%), beef (0.41%), vegetable ghee 1kg (0.22%), curd (0.19%), lawn printed (0.17%), and cigarettes (0.07%).

On a year-over-year basis, the prices of the following goods fell: onions (44.93%), chicken (31.08%), garlic (28.69%), electricity charges for Q1 (26.26%), pulse gram (24.24%), pulse mash (19.11%), tea packet (17.93%), potatoes (17.50%), pulse masoor (4.10%), and LPG (1.33%).

Prices for the following goods went up from year to year: tomatoes (89.81%), ladies sandals (55.62%), sugar (33.73%), gas charges for q1 (29.85%), pulse moong (15.27%), wheat flour (13.37%), diesel (12.57%), beef (12.48%), gur (12.15%), firewood (11.22%), vegetable ghee 1 kg (11.06%), and vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (10.97%).