ISLAMABAD: Persons with lower buying power have witnessed sharp increase in inflation for week ended August 20, 2020 as compared with the same week a year ago.
According to data of Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) issued by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the inflation increased more for persons having less buying powers and the inflation is lower for those persons have sufficient money to buy essential items.
The PBS categorized five expenditure groups to assess the price movement of essential items on weekly basis.
The data shows the trend of inflation amongst the expenditure groups as:
For expenditure group up to Rs17,732: inflation increased by 11.49 percent by the week ended August 20, 2020 when compared with week ended August 22, 2019.
For expenditure group between Rs17,733 and Rs22,888: inflation increased by 11.22 percent by the week ended August 20, 2020 when compared with week ended August 22, 2019.
For expenditure group between Rs22,889 and Rs29,517: inflation increased by 10.05 percent by the week ended August 20, 2020 when compared with week ended August 22, 2019.
For expenditure group between Rs29,518 and Rs44,175: inflation increased by 9.20 percent by the week ended August 20, 2020 when compared with week ended August 22, 2019.
For expenditure group above Rs44,175: inflation increased by 6.98 percent by the week ended August 20, 2020 when compared with week ended August 22, 2019.
