This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; Arabic: الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني, romanized: al-Jihāz al-Markazī lil-Iḥṣāʼ al-Filasṭīnī) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine.

Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures at the national and international levels.

[3] Besides general statistics, such as the Retail Price Index, the PCBS also carries out special projects.

[4] Also, the PCBS provided the 2003 "Survey on the Impact of separation Wall on the Location Where it Passed Through".

In March and April 2002, its Fieldwork section in downtown Ramallah was raided four times; soldiers searched the apartments.