Articles Archive for January 2012
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In 2010-11 fiscal years, an upward trend is persisted for all indices to measure multiple kind of inflation. Average CPI inflation is 14.1%, WPI inflation is 23.3% and SPI inflation is increased to 18.2% for July-Apr 2010-11 which is higher than the last year. The original factors for this spine are: increase in the international oil prices, textile products prices and unavailability of key consumer items in the market. Below table ravels average rates of inflation for three price indices:
CPI=Consumer Price Index
WPI=Wholesale Price Index
SPI=Sensitive Price Indicator
Trends of Inflation During …
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A study done by Federal Bureau Statistics on Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey 2010-11 has revealed the following statistics related to education.
*Literacy-population 10 years and older:
Literacy rate of Pakistan is about 58% of population, age group 10 years and above. At provisional level 60% Punjab while, Balochistan is 41% which is less among all provinces.
* Adult literacy-population 15 years and older:
Adult literacy rate in Pakistan is about 55% of population, age group 15 years and above, while at province level Sindh is 58%, 37% in Balochistan which …

