Kitchen Inflation Tracker
What Pakistanis pay for 51 essentials in 17 cities, read every week from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics' Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) PDFs.
1. Which city pays the most for the same basket?
Kitchen basket price level by city, whole period
29 grocery items priced in all 17 cities, weighted by the SPI basket. 100 = 17-city average. The top four are the same on an unweighted index; mid-table order depends on weighting.
Is it stable? Basket price level over time
Rank stability table
What makes it dear
Average premium over the 17-city mean, by item. Five dearest and five cheapest items.
2. Do poorer households face different inflation?
Year-on-year SPI inflation by consumption quintile
Q1 = lowest-spending fifth of households, Q5 = highest. Published by PBS each week.
Table
Gap: poorest minus richest (pp)
Above 0: the poorest quintile faces higher inflation.
Where the poorest basket leans
Item weight in the lowest-quintile basket minus the combined basket (pp of spending).
Which items open the gap?
Each item's contribution to YoY inflation for the lowest quintile minus its contribution to the combined index, chained from PBS's weekly item impacts.
3. How large is the Ramadan effect, by item?
Ramadan effect by item: price change in Ramadan minus the item's typical change in other months (pp)
Sorted by average effect. Blank = not enough clean weeks that year.
Table
Data quality
Every number above is parsed from PDFs. These checks run on every weekly build; errors stop publication.
Validation checks this run
Full list: validation report. Every cleaning decision: methods note. Downloads: city_index.csv, quintile_yoy.csv, gap_contrib.csv, ramadan_effect.csv.