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PCBS | Palestinian Consumer Price Index, August, 08/2013

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

 

 Palestinian Consumer Price Index, August, 08/2013

 

 

Increase in the CPI during August 2013 compared with previous month

The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Palestine during August 2013 increased by 0.37% compared with July 2013 (increased by 0.79% in Jerusalem J1*, and by 0.28% in the West Bank, and by 0.11% in Gaza Strip).

The CPI during August 2013 increased by 1.39% compared with August 2012 (2.56% in the West Bank, and by 2.07% in Jerusalem J1*, while it decreased by 0.84% in Gaza Strip).

 

The CPI during the first eight months of 2013 increased by 1.79% compared with the same period of the previous year (3.17% in the West Bank, 1.90% in Jerusalem J1*, while it decreased by 0.58% in Gaza Strip).

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

 

Sub Groups

%Change

Potatoes and other Tubers

+ 14.63%

Fresh Vegetables

+ 4.36%

Gas

+ 3.13%

Dried Vegetables

+ 2.83%

Fuel Oil for House

+ 2.59%

Fuel for Cars

+ 1.89%

Sugar

- 1.15%

 

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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