{"doc_desc":{"title":"Internal Trade Survey  2005","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-INT-2005-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data "}],"prod_date":"2011-06-25","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-INT-2005-V1.0","title":"Internal Trade Survey  2005","alt_title":"INT","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u062d\u0635\u0627\u0621\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062c\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629  2005"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","affiliation":"NA","email":"","role":""},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","affiliation":"NA","email":"","role":""},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"SDS","email":"","role":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Producers"}],"copyright":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Economic Surveys Series - Revised Results,1998-2006.","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"financial"},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"NA","role":"financial"},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","abbreviation":"NA","role":"financial"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDS","role":"financial"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of user services","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","email":" diwan@pcbs.gov.ps   ","uri":" http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]","series_info":"The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to issue the Thirteen volume of the economic surveys for the Palestinian Territory, which presents the findings of the surveys conducted for 2006 as reference year.  These surveys cover most of economic activities operating in the Palestinian Territory since 1994."},"version_statement":{"version":"v0.1:  Basic raw data, obtained from data entry (before editing).","version_date":"2006-09-20"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Internal Trade","vocab":"Guidebook of Statistical Definitions and Glossary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"economic conditions and indicators [1.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The objective of the survey was to obtain data on:\n\n1. Number of enterprises and persons engaged in services by activity and location.\n2. Value of output, intermediate consumption and stocks.\n3. Value added components.\n4. Payments and transfers.\n5. Capital formation.\n6. Contribution of the surveyed activities to the GDP and other National Accounts variables.","time_periods":[{"start":"2005-01-01","end":"2005-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2006-04-01","end":"2006-06-15","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"West Bank and Gaza Strip","geog_unit":"West Bank and Gaza Strip","analysis_unit":"Enterprise:It is an economic entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities.include Enterprise of related to household and branches, and Enterprise of related to non-financial companies sector.","universe":"Sample from Internal Trade Enterprises (privet sector)","data_kind":"\u0628\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u064a\u0646\u0629","notes":"1. Identification data\n2. Data about establishment assets.\n3. Data about Purchasing goods for selling purpose\n4. Number of employees in a company and their compensations.\n5. Various payments and transfers \n6. Other output expenses\n7. Goods productions\n8. Goods Production Inputs\n9. Others Goods Production Inputs\n10. Revenues of Services Rendered to Others\n11. Indirect Fees and Taxes\n12. Production Inputs Fuel and oil\n13. Various transfers and revenues \n14. Electricity and water\n \nThe objective of the survey was to obtain data on:\n\n2.1 Number of enterprises and persons engaged in services by activity and location.\n2.2 Value of output, intermediate consumption and stocks.\n2.3 Value added components.\n2.4 Payments and transfers.\n2.5 Capital formation.\n2.6 Contribution of the surveyed activities to the GDP and other National Accounts variables.\n\n\nConcepts and Definitions\n\nThis chapter presents the definitions of the concepts used in the preparation of the survey tools on which data collection and processing are based. These concepts and their definitions are based on international recommendations in the fields of economic statistics and national accounts while taking into account the particular aspects of the Palestinian Territory.\n\nStatistical Unit \nIt is an economic entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities.\n\nPersons Engaged\nMales and females working in the enterprise including owners, self-employed, unpaid family members, or waged workers who receive their compensations in cash or in kind during a specific reference period. However, this term does not include trainees or those on assignments outside the enterprises or in long unpaid leaves. \n\nOutput\nIt is the value of the final products of goods and services produced by a certain establishment which is used by other units for self-consumed or for the purposes of self gross fixed capital formation. Production includes two categories: Final products and the so-called (under operating products). Production can be classified as follows: Market outputs, Outputs of private account. and  other non-market outputs. \nIntermediate Consumption\nIt is the  value of the goods and services consumed as inputs, used up or transformed during the production process. It is measured during a specific period in time in a way similar to measuring production. Intermediate consumption is estimated by purchase price, which is defined as the producers' price plus transportation and wholesale and retail trade margins. The value of the gross intermediate consumption on the level of the total economy is the same whether calculated by purchase or producers' price. However, on the detailed level, the two evaluations vary.\n  \nValue Added\nValue added is a central concept of production and refers to the generated value of any unit that carries out any productive activity. Gross value added is defined as the value of gross production less the value of intermediate consumption.\n\nCompensations of Employees\nCompensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, including social security contributions, payable by an enterprise to an employee in return for work done by the latter.\n\nTaxes on Product \nThose are taxes that are compulsory cash or in kind payments payable by producers to the general government. it consist of taxes on products payable on goods and services at production, sale, or exchange and other taxes payable on production by resident producers as a result of carrying out the production process.\n\nAssets \nIt is tangible or intangible (computer software, artistic original) that comes as an output of the production process .It is used frequently or continuously in other production process for more than one year period.\n\nDepreciation \nIt is the value of the assets which can be reproduced and depreciated during the year, depreciation is calculated on the current substitutive value.\n\nOperating surplus\nValue added minus (compensation of employees plus net taxes on production minus subsidies and custom fees plus depreciation).\n \nGross Fixed Capital Formation\n It is the value of what producers own less what they spend on new and used capital goods.\n\nMain Economic Activity\nIs the main work of the enterprise based on the  (ISIC, rev3) and that contribute by the large proportion of the value added, whenever more than one activity exist in the enterprise.\n\nWest Bank: \nMeans West Bank excluding those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israel in 1967.\n\nJerusalem ( J1):\nthose parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israel in 1967."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"sampling_procedure":"The sample of the Internal trade Survey is a single-stage stratified random - systematic sample in which the enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU).  Three levels of strata were used to arrive at an efficient representative sample (i.e. economic activity, size of employment and geographical levels).  The sample size amounted to (2,607) enterprises out of the (53,917) enterprises that comprise the survey frame.","coll_mode":["\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u062e\u0635\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u062c\u0647\u0627 \u0644\u0648\u062c\u0647"],"research_instrument":"Survey Questionnaire\n\nThey are two forms of the Internal trade survey questionnaire 2005, the first one is related to household and branches, and the second is related to non-finance companies sector. The questionnaire contains of the following main variables:\n1.\tNumber of employees in a company and their compensations.\n2.\tThe output of the main and second activities.\n3.\tGoods production inputs.\n4.\tVarious payments and transfers.\n5.\tIndirect taxes.\n6.\tEnterprises assets.","coll_situation":"Data Collecting\n\nQuestionnaire Test:\nDoing a primitive pretest during two days to make a technical study of the questionnaire, study the rejection and the data quality.\n\nWorkers Selection and Training:\nThe interviewers in the fieldwork are selected from the experienced ones in the statistical work and they are also trained theoretically and practically.\n\n Fieldwork operations:  \nThey are initiated after the recruitment and training of qualified interviewers.  The PCBS's Fieldwork Directorate administers fieldwork activities including interviewing activities.\n\nData Gathering Method:\nData are gathered by using an interview with the enterprise owner or general manager by applying the survey questionnaire.\n\nFieldwork Editing:\nThe interviewer and supervisor firstly edit technically the questionnaire according to editing rules.\n\nOffice Editing: \nThe office editor also edits the questionnaire in order to be ready to be sent to coding and data entry.\n\nCoding:\nAfter the editor finishes editing the questionnaire, a coding are used according to (ISIC - 3), then the questionnaire is transferred to data entry.","act_min":"For insuring data quality, a series of measures were taken in to a account that support accuracy  of data collection through the following:\nSelection of specialized fieldwork team of economic back ground, the team was trained theoretically and practically on the survey questionnaire.\nThe main fieldwork team was selected according to the training course.\nField work visits by both fieldwork and project management staff for monitoring and following up data collection process and progress of work, An average of two visits for each governorate, a bout 90% of completed questionnaires was reviewed and corrected if needed, comments and notes were directed to the team accordingly.\nDifferent levels of supervision and monitoring toke place a according to the following division:\nFieldworkers\nFieldworkers supervisors \nFieldwork coordinator.  (Each of them has responsibilities in monitoring )  \nProject management receive a daily progress report about completeness and response.\nConducting a refreshment training course during the stage of data collection for emphasizing the main issues of  training and answering questions of fieldworkers about issues faced them in the field.","weight":"Weighting and Estimation\n\nWeighting Procedure:\nThe sampling weight of the enterprise is the mathematical turned of the possibility selection of that enterprise.  It is necessary to use weights in the estimation of the survey society because of the differentiation in the possibility of enterprises' selection from another one.","cleaning_operations":"Data processing:\nFor  insuring quality and consistency of data a set of measures were taken in to account for strengthening accuracy of data as follows:\nPreparing data entry program before data collection for checking readiness of the program for data entry.\nA set of validation rules were applied on the program for  checking consistency of data.\nEfficiency of the program was checked through pre-testing in entering few questionnaires, including incorrect information for checking its efficiency, in capturing these information.\nWell trained data keyers were selected and trained for the main data entry.\nWeekly or by weekly data files were received by project management for checking accuracy and consistency, notes of correction are provided for data entry management for correction.","method_notes":"Notes on Data:\n Relied on the revised data of Internal Trade Survey 2005.\nDifferences of results of certain indicators can be noticed due to approximation. \n\nMain fieldwork notes:\nFieldwork process is accomplished successfully regardless of the lack of the fieldworkers' staff.\nIn spite of high response rate compared with other countries experience, certain cases of refusal and reluctance recorded.\nData collected in the fieldwork process taken from calculation records if founded. Otherwise interviewer takes estimated data in the cases which no calculation records available. \n\nThe currency exchange ratio:\nThe following is the exchange ratios to US$:\nUS$\/ NIS =4.4843\nUS$\/ JD  = 0.7086"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"Response rate  (91.6%).\n\nValues of Response Rates:\nThe original sample of Remaining West Bank and Gaza Strip is (2290) establishment \n\n- over coverage ratio is (11.1%) distributed as:\n1.\tRepeated.  (0.4%)\n2.\tBranch Keep No Records.  (1.4%)\n3.\tEnterprises practice economic activities out of the survey.  (1.4%)\n4.\tAgricultural appropriation  (0.1%)\n5.\tIsn't an Establishment as Recognized.  (0.3%)\n6.\tOther Results (7.5%)\n\n- non response ratio is (8.4%)distributed as:\n1.\tPermanently closed (0.5%)\n2.\tCould not reach the address (1.0%)\n3.\tRefusal (4.4%)   \n4.\tThe budget isn't ready (0.6%)\n5.\tOther Results (1.9 (%\n\n-\tResponse rate  (91.6%).","sampling_error_estimates":"Statistical Errors:\nThe findings of the survey are affected by statistical errors due to using sampling in conducting the survey for the units of the target population, which increases the chances of having variances from the actual values we expect to obtain from the data had we conducted the survey using comprehensive enumeration. The variance of the key goods in the survey was computed and dissemination was carried out on the level of the Palestinian Territory  for reasons related to sample design and computation of the variance of the different indicators.\n\nNon-Statistical Errors\nThese types of errors could appear on one or all the survey stages that include data collection and data entry:\nResponse rate values: \nSample size was 2,607 institution in the Palestinian Territory.\nNon-response ratio is (8.4%.)\nOver coverage ratio is (11.1%.)\nThe Response ratio is (91.6%).\n\nResponse errors: these types of errors are related to, responders, fieldworkers, and data entry personnel's. And to avoid mistakes and reduce the impact has been a series of actions that would enhance the accuracy of the data through a process of data collection from the field and the data processing.","data_appraisal":"-"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law No. (5) for Year 2000\n\nArticle (17)\n1. All individual information and data submitted to the Bureau for statistical purposes shall be treated as confidential and shall not be divulged, in whole or in part, to any individual or to a public or private body, or used for any purpose other than for preparing statistical tables. \n2. The Bureau shall endeavor to issue official statistical publications in aggregate tables, which do not disclose individual data, in conformity with the confidentiality of statistical data.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps  "}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Economic Surveys Series - Revised Results,1998-2006. Version 1.0 Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"1. pledges  the utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof shall be limited to the purposes agreed upon including not granting any third parties any access to these data. Restrictions applies to any data duplication or transformed setting for purposes other than meeting the requirements of the statistical programs used in data analysis.\n\n2. Utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally .\n\n3. pledges not to alter the value of any observation in the original \"data\"; nevertheless, this does not apply on subjecting data to any processes or procedures aiming to derive new variables. The first party does not bear any professional, administrative or financial responsibility for any losses incurred as a result of changes in the variables values.","disclaimer":"PCBS  provid  data collected for purely statistical purposes, and therefore does not assume any responsibility for legal or professional from any claim or analysis or interpretation or misuse of this data."}}}}