West Bank and Gaza - Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey, 2023, Main Findings of Living Standards in the West Bank (Expenditure, Consumption and Poverty), 2023

Data file: Main Dataset for the West Bank & Gaza Strip for Q1 - Q3, 2023

main_3Qs ( Household consumption & expenditure summary - Palestine, first three quarters 2023 )
main_3Qs collapses every transaction reported by the diary into a single monthly-equivalent record per household. Each row lists location (ID01, loc_type), composition (QC3, num_children, num_adults), design weight (rw_pal) and 30 COICOP-based columns grp1…grp30, each giving the household's average‐month value in New Israeli Shekels:
grp1 cereals-bread … grp11 prepared meals,
grp12 self-produced food,
non-food groups grp13…grp25,
grp26 imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings,
fiscal groups grp27 cash transfers, grp28 taxes, grp29 other non-consumption,
grp30 social-protection services.
Four headline indicators follow: food_expenditure, food_consumption, total_expenditure, total_consumption. Construction steps (classification of transactions, conversion of yearly and 3-year items to monthly values, rent imputation, zero-filling of absent groups, and group summations) are identical to the West Bank pipeline but applied to the full Palestine sample up to October 2023.

West Bank + Gaza (First Three Quarters 2023 microdata)
Weight variables: weight3q_trim (final calibrated & trimmed probability weight for the pooled Q1-Q3 sample) and its mean-one counterpart rw. Because Q4 fieldwork in Gaza was cancelled due to the ongoing Israeli aggression, seasonality could not be modelled for Gaza; therefore, key expenditure- and consumption-based indicators were released only for the West Bank, not for Gaza or the national level.