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PCBS | PCBS: The Consumer Price Index During, December, 12/2019.

Decrease in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) during December, 12/2019

The overall CPI for Palestine during December 2019 decreased by 0.24% compared with November 2019 (by 0.60% in the West Bank**, while it increased by 0.54% in Jerusalem J1*, and with a slight increase by 0.06% in Gaza Strip).

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


Sub Groups

Percent Change

Fresh Fruit

-7.07%

Fresh Chicken

-5.62%

Eggs

-2.77%

Vegetable Oil

-2.52%

Potatoes and other Tubers

+31.54%

Dried Vegetables

+5.70%

Fresh Vegetables

+4.50%

Gas

+3.49%



The Palestinian CPI during December 2019 increased by 1.58% compared with December 2018 (by 1.85% in Jerusalem J1*, and by 1.43% in the West Bank*, and with a slight increase by 0.06% 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 Statistic Division (UNSD), 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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