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

West Bank and Gaza, 2023 - 2024

Get Microdata

Reference ID

PSE-PCBS-PECS-2023-V1.0

Producer(s)

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

Collections

Household Expenditure and Consumption

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Aug 11, 2025

Last modified

Aug 11, 2025

Page views

560

Downloads

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

items_3Qs ( Item-level diary file - Palestine, first three quarters 2023 )
each record in items_3Qs represents a unique household (ID00) × one expenditure/consumption item (ItemCode) for the entire survey month that the diary covered. Weekly food figures are stored as four columns (week_1…week_4), which together sum to the single-month totals (total_weight_all_weeks, total_all_weeks). Non-food items appear once per household-item pair with their value already converted to a monthly equivalent (from a monthly, annual, or 3-year reference period, as appropriate). The dataset is therefore a pure ID00 × ItemCode matrix, designed to link to hhdata_3Qs and main_3Qs via ID00 for detailed budget analysis across Palestine.

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.