Pakistan's first fashion price index
Pakistan Fashion Price Index (PFPI)
Monthly price movement across 107 Pakistani fashion brands. The latest month matches 364,233 products present in both consecutive months, drawn from TrendCompare's hourly tracking of 660,000+ products. Base: March 2026 = 100.
Behind this index, machine-verified
Every figure below is computed from the live database into an immutable snapshot, passes automated consistency invariants before publication, and is re-computed hourly. Data as of 15 November 2026.
- Brands trackedn = 660,951
- 107
- Stored price observationsn = 1,413,601
- 1,413,601
- Genuine price-change events, last 30 daysn = 93,522
- 93,522
PFPI 88.34 for November 2026 (to date, provisional), March 2026 = 100, from 363,840 matched products.
- PFPI, Oct 2026
- 90.6
- Month-over-month
- -0.28%
- Since March 2026
- -9.4
PFPI, all products, chained monthly
By category, Oct 2026
| Category | Index | MoM | Matched products |
|---|---|---|---|
| ready to wear | 90.6 | ▼ -0.37% | 175,161 |
| unstitched | 89.1 | ▲ +0.08% | 61,509 |
| jewelry | 97.5 | ▼ -0.64% | 45,417 |
| bags accessories | 89.3 | ▲ +0.70% | 24,306 |
| footwear | 80.5 | ▼ -2.44% | 22,995 |
| bottom wear | 83.7 | ▲ +2.31% | 14,188 |
| western | 92.3 | ▼ -0.55% | 6,770 |
| formal wedding | 95.9 | ▼ -0.28% | 6,610 |
| hair accessories | 93.3 | ▼ -6.10% | 1,834 |
| fragrances | 96.3 | ▲ +3.15% | 1,711 |
| beauty | 100.0 | ▲ +0.43% | 1,574 |
| home living | 93.0 | ▼ -3.02% | 1,564 |
| seasonal | 99.2 | • -0.01% | 594 |
Brand movers, Oct 2026
By price segment, Oct 2026
- luxury
- 95.9 • +0.00%
- mid
- 85.3 ▲ +0.21%
- premium
- 84.8 ▼ -0.95%
- budget
- 96.1 ▼ -0.56%
Methodology
The PFPI uses a chained matched-pairs methodology modelled on how national statistics agencies compute CPI elementary aggregates:
- Every product's median observed price is computed per calendar month from TrendCompare's hourly price history.
- For each consecutive month pair, only products observed in both months are matched, new arrivals and delisted items are excluded so assortment changes don't masquerade as price changes.
- The month-over-month change is the 2%-trimmed geometric mean of per-product price ratios (a Jevons index), robust to listing errors and couture outliers, yet sensitive when most prices are sticky.
- Monthly changes are chained from the base period, March 2026 = 100.
Scope cells with fewer than 300 matched products in a month are treated as insufficient and carried flat. Ratios outside 0.1x to 10x are dropped as data errors. All data comes from TrendCompare's own scraping of official brand websites, no third-party feeds.
Version history
PFPI-1.1 (5 Oct 2026, current). Monthly medians now use shelf-life-bounded carry-forward: a product whose listed price did not change in a month is counted as an observation of an unchanged price for as long as it remains listed. v1.0 matched only products whose price actually moved, which over-weighted clearance markdowns and overstated deflation (Sep 2026 overall read 82.1 under v1.0 vs 91.6 under v1.1). The full series was recomputed under v1.1; v1.0 values are archived, not blended. The companion Discount Index moved to DIX-1.1 the same day: sale authenticity is now measured against each product's own pre-sale price level (highest monthly median over the trailing 3 months), not month-over-month movement.
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Methodology
Chained matched-pairs, Jevons trimmed geometric mean, the approach national statistics agencies use for CPI elementary aggregates.
Data
364,233 matched products · 107 brands · hourly snapshots, scraped directly from official brand websites. No third-party feeds.