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Monthly Producer Price Index of Industrial Sector March 2017(Base year 2013=100)

5/4/2017
 

  •  General PPI of March 2017, decreased by 2.5 % when compared with previous month.
  •  General PPI of March 2017, increased by 28.3% when compared with March 2016.
  •  PPI of Crude Petroleum and Natural gas decreased by 3.9%, comparing with previous month.
  •  PPI of Manufacturing increased by 0.3%, when compared with previous month.

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) has released the Monthly Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Industrial sector for March 2017 with the base year 2013. Producer price index covers goods relating to “Mining” (weight: 72.7%), “Manufacturing” (weight: 26.8%), and “Electricity & Water” (weight: 0.5%).

          Mining
The PPI of March, 2017 shows a decrease of 3.9% when compared with PPI of February 2017, primarily due to the decrease of prices of “Crude petroleum and natural gas”. PPI of March 2017, when compared with its counterpart in the previous year, there has been a considerable increase of 31.7%. Figure (1) & (2) shows the monthly movement of “Mining” index during March 2016 and March 2017.


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