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PCBS | PPCBS: The Consumer Price Index During September,09/2013

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)  

Palestinian Consumer Price Index, September, 09/2013 

Increase in the CPI during September 2013 compared with previous month

The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Palestine during September 2013 increased by 0.45% compared with August 2013 (increased by 0.80% in the West Bank, and by 0.27% in Jerusalem J1*, and by 0.15% in Gaza Strip).  

The CPI during September 2013 increased by 0.42% compared with September 2012 (1.16% in the West Bank, and by 0.87% in Jerusalem J1*, while it decreased by 1.97% in Gaza Strip). 

The CPI during the first Nine months of 2013 increased by 1.63% compared with the same period of the previous year (2.94% in the West Bank, 1.78% in Jerusalem J1*, while it decreased by 0.74% in Gaza Strip). 

The change in Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September 2013 is traced back to changes in prices of the following expenditure sub groups compared to the previous month:

 

Sub Groups

%Change

Eggs

  + 10.99%

Fresh Vegetables

+ 4.93%

Liquid Fuel for House

+ 4.44%

Liquid Fuel for Cars

+ 2.64%

Gas

+ 1.58%

Dried Vegetables

- 5.75%

Potatoes and other Tubers

- 3.13%

Fresh Fruit

- 3.10%

Fresh Poultry

- 1.82%

 

The trend line for the consumer price index in Palestine for 2004 – 2012 

 

Note:

* Jerusalem J1:  those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israel in 1967

The data of West Bank doesn't cover Jerusalem J1.

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