ISLAMABAD: The prices of essential items have surged by 19.5 per cent during past one year by week ended December 16, 2021, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said. The year on year trend depicts increase of 19.49 per cent when compared with the week ended December 17, 2020. READ MORE: Headline inflation surges by 11.5% […]

ISLAMABAD: The inflation based on sensitive price indicator (SPI) has increased by 11.28 percent Year on Year by week ended October 08, 2020, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Friday. The PBS computes SPI on weekly basis to assess the price movements of essential commodities at shorter interval of time so as to review […]

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 […]