{"doc_desc":{"title":"Work Conditions Survey 1997","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-WCS-1997-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian Nationa Authority","role":"Production and execute the survey"}],"prod_date":"2014-12-07","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (December \/ 2014)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-WCS-1997-V1.0","title":"Work Conditions Survey 1997","alt_title":"WCS","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0638\u0631\u0648\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0645\u0644 1997"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"SDC","email":"","role":"responded to the survey instrument"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Product the survey"}],"copyright":"\u00a9 All Rights Reserved.Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Work Conditions Survey 1997.","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"Financial assistance"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"Financial assistance"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of Users Services","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics ","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps ","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps "}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Labor Force Survey [hh\/lfs]","series_info":"The main objective of collecting data on the Palestinian labour force 1999  including components of employment, unemployment and underemployment, is to provide basic information on the relative size and structure of the Palestinian labour force. Data collected at different points in time provide a basis for monitoring current trends and changes in the labour market and in employment.  These data supported with information on other aspects of the economy provide a basis for the evaluation and analysis of macro-economic policies."},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 dataset for public distribution","version_date":"2014-12-07"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Employed","vocab":"Concepts and Definition Dictionary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"labour relations\/conflict [3.3]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The main objective of collecting data on the work conditions, is to provide basic information on the employment characteristics of the Palestinian labour in both public and private sectors, such as; occupational health at work, work environment, membership of labour unions and availability of employment contract.\n\n\nWe hope that this study will provide Palestinian planners, researchers and decision makers with needed statistical material on the work conditions, in order to adapt the right policy in the development of employment conditions, which as a consequently, improves the productivity and economic growth.","time_periods":[{"start":"1997-05-24","end":"1997-07-10","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"1997-05-24","end":"1997-07-10","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"The Data are representative at region level (West Bank, Gaza Strip), locality type (urban, rural, camp) and governorates","analysis_unit":"Household, individual","universe":"The target population consist of all Employed Persons aged 15 years and above, worked in the past, and living in the Palestinian Territory, excluding nomads and persons living in institutions such as prisons or shelters.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The survey tool was designed taking into account the Palestinian conditions. The  work conditions questionnaire was a supplement to the labour force survey questionnaire, which depends heavily on it, so it cannot be asked without the labour force survey questionnaire. At the sometime the work conditions survey questionnaire considered to be complementary to the labour force survey.\n\nThe questionnaire of work conditions depends on three parts of the labour force questionnaire; one part for recording necessary elements for survey management and controls, one part for identifying the sample household, and the last part for recording the labour force characteristics for household members in the working age."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"sampling_procedure":"Sample Design:\nStratification:\n\n Four levels of stratification have been made:\nStratification by District.\nStratification by place of residence which comprises: \n(a) Municipalities\t                   (b) Villages                 (c) Refugee Camps \t \nStratification by locality size.\nStratification by cell identification in that order.\n\nSampling unit:\nFirst stage sampling unit are the area units (Cells)in the master sample . The second stage sampling units are households.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"TThe lfs questionnaire consists of four main sections: \nIdentification Data:\nThe main objective for this part is to record the necessary information to identify the household, such as, cluster code, sector, type of  locality, cell, housing number and the cell code.\nQuality Control:\nThis part involves  groups of controlling standards to monitor the field and office operation, to keep in order the sequence of  questionnaire stages (data collection, field and office coding, data entry, editing after entry and store the data.\nHousehold Roster:\nThis part involves demographic characteristics  about the household, like number of persons in the household, date of birth, sex, educational level\u2026etc.\nEmployment Part:\nThis part involves the major  research indicators, where  one questionnaire had been answered by every 15 years and over household member, to be able to explore their labour force status and recognize their major characteristics toward employment status, economic activity, occupation, place of work, and other employment indicators.","coll_situation":"TThe Palestinian Territory was divided into four regions (North of the West Bank, Middle of the West Bank, South of the West Bank, and Gaza Strip), each of which was supervised by one  field supervisor.  Each region consists of a number of districts. Field work activities in each region were carried out by one field work team consisted of 4-6 interviewers and one editor .\n\nCertain procedures were followed for quality control and efficient organization of  the field work. Such procedures pertain for supervising work as well as receiving and delivering questionnaires, maps, sample lists in addition to other forms used for management and quality control.","act_min":"Re-interview\nField visits","weight":"Weighting was based on self weighting design sample","cleaning_operations":"The data processing stage consisted of the following operations:\n\nEditing before data entry\nAll questionnaires were edited again using the same instructions adopted for  editing in the field.\n\nData Entry\nIn this stage data were entered to the computer, using a data entry template written in BLAISE   The data entry program has satisfied many requirements  such as:\nThe duplication of the questionnaire on the computer screen.\nLogical and consistency checking of data entered.\nPossibility for internal editing of questions answers.\nMaintaining a minimum of digital data entry and field work errors.\nA User- Friendless\nPossibility of transferring data into another format to be used and analyzed using   \n          other statistical analytical systems such as SAS and SPSS."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"\" The overall response rate for the survey was 91.0%","sampling_error_estimates":"Detailed information on the sampling Error is available in the Survey Report.","data_appraisal":"Detailed information on the data appraisal is available in the Survey Report"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law \nNo. (5) \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":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics,Work Conditions Survey 1997 . V 1.0  (December-2014). Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"License Agreement for the Use of Micro Data in PCBS \nitems(10,11,12) as following:\n\n\n1. 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":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}}}