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PCBS | PCBS: The Consumer Price Index During, June, 06/2019.

Decrease in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) during June, 06/2019

The overall CPI for Palestine during June 2019 decreased by 0.48% compared with May 2019 (by 1.26% in Gaza Strip, by 0.34% in the West Bank**, and with a slight decrease of 0.01% in Jerusalem J1*).

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

Sub Groups

Percent Change

Fresh Vegetables

- 14.30%

Eggs

- 9.39%

Dried Vegetables

- 8.00%

Fresh Fruit

- 4.31%

Potatoes and other Tubers

- 3.34%

Fresh Meat

+ 2.11%

Fish, Live, Fresh, Chilled, or Frozen

+ 1.96%

Flour of Cereals

+ 1.25%

Fresh Chicken

+ 0.86%



The Palestinian CPI during June 2019 increased by 1.39% compared with June 2018 (by 1.87% in Jerusalem J1*, by 1.02% in both the West Bank** and Gaza Strip).

The Palestinian CPI during the first half of 2019 increased by 1.41% compared with the same period of the previous year (by 1.78% in the West Bank**, by 1.08% in Jerusalem J1*, and by 0.52% in Gaza Strip).

The table shows monthly percent changes in CPI by Palestinian regions for the months:  January – June 2019:


Month

Monthly Percent Change

Palestine

West Bank*

Gaza Strip

Jerusal-em J1*

January 2019

+ 0.01

+ 0.01

+ 0.15

- 0.19

February 2019

- 0.05

+ 0.17

- 0.57

- 0.49

March 2019

+ 0.85

+ 0.88

+ 0.89

+ 0.57

April 2019

+ 0.85

+ 1.09

+ 0.07

+ 0.76

May 2019

+ 0.43

- 0.14

+ 1.12

+ 1.89

June 2019

- 0.48

- 0.34

- 1.26

- 0.01


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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