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PCBS | PCBS: The Consumer Price Index During, March, 03/2019.

 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) during March, 03/2019

The overall CPI for Palestine during March 2019 increased by 0.85% compared with February 2019 (by 0.89% in Gaza Strip, by 0.88% in the West Bank**, and by 0.57% in Jerusalem J1*).

The changes in Palestinian CPI for March 2019 is traced back to changes in prices of the following expenditure sub groups compared with previous month:

Sub Groups

Percent Change

Potatoes and other Tubers

+ 11.45%

Fresh Vegetables

+ 10.03%

Fresh Chicken

+ 6.52%

Fresh Fruit

+ 5.17%

Liquid Fuel for Car "Petrol"

+ 3.57%

Dried Vegetables

+ 2.03%

Eggs

- 3.49%


The Palestinian CPI during March 2019 increased by 1.42% compared with March 2018 (by 2.20% in the West Bank**, by 0.79% in Jerusalem J1*, and by 0.35% in Gaza Strip).

Notice:
•    The base year of Consumer Price Index has been updated to be 2018.
•    Reliance on the new version of the Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose COICOP – 2018 issued by the United Nation division (UN), to classify major groups, commodities' and services consumed.

Notes:
*Data represent those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israeli Occupation in 1967.

**Data exclude those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israeli Occupation in 1967.



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