{"doc_desc":{"title":"Transport Survey:Informal Sector 2008","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-TSOES-2008.V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":" PCBS","affiliation":"   Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data "}],"prod_date":"2012-02-08","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-INFTRANS-2008-V1.0","title":"Transport Survey Informal Sector (Outside Establishments Sector) 2008","alt_title":"TSOES","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0642\u0644 \u0644\u0644\u0642\u0637\u0627\u0639 \u063a\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0638\u0645 (\u0627\u0644\u0646\u0642\u0644 \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0634\u0627\u062a) :2008"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority  "}],"oth_id":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial  "},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial  "}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority  ","role":"Producers  "}],"copyright":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 2009, Transport Survey: Informal Sector 2008, Main Results","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"(PNA)  ","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"  NOR","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","abbreviation":"NDL","role":"financial  "},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":" (SDC)","role":"financial  "}],"grant_no":"CFG CFG CFG"},"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":"Informal Sector Survey [hh\/iss]","series_info":"This survey implemented for  thirteenth  volume of the Transport Survey: Informal Sector for the Palestinian Territory. This report presents findings of the survey for the year 2008 for the Palestinian Territory.\n\nThe survey results include data related to the number of operating vehicles, persons engaged, compensation of employees, output, intermediate consumption, value added, capital formation and other indicators.  \n\nCovering informal economic activity with a statistical survey is not an easy task.  One challenge was the preparation of a convenient sampling frame. Such challenges should be taken into account when studying results of the survey."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0:  Basic raw data, obtained from data entry (before editing).","version_date":"2009-06-20"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Informal Transport","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical Terms","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":"There is increasing concern in national statistical offices about coverage of informal economic activities. PCBS has given priority to transport activities, due to their importance to the Palestinian economy. The informal transport survey complements the 2008 formal transport sector survey. The PCBS began by exerting tremendous effort to establish a sampling frame.  All land transport stops in major Palestinian cities were defined and data about the number and characteristics of operating vehicles were collected in order to stratify the population into homogenous stratum.\n\nThe survey covers activities of the informal sector according to (ISIC-3) for both:\nNon-scheduled passenger land transport (6022)\nFreight transport by road (6023)\n\n\nObjectives:\nObjectives of this survey are the following. \n1. Number of transport vehicles and persons engaged by activity.\n2. Value of output and intermediate consumption\n3. Value added components.\n4. Fixed assets.\n5. Other selected variables.","time_periods":[{"start":"2008-01-01","end":"2008-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2009-02-06","end":"2009-02-28","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"Palestinian Territory","analysis_unit":"vehicles","universe":"Coverage: The survey covers activities of the informal sector according to (ISIC-3) for both:\nNon-scheduled passenger land transport (6022)\nFreight transport by road (6023)\n\n\nVehicles:divided according to its activity to:\n\u00b7Taxi passengers.\n\u00b7Privet passengers.\n\u00b7Freight transport by road.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Objectives: \nObjectives of this survey are the following: \n1.  Number of transport vehicles and persons engaged by activity.\n 2.  Value of output and intermediate consumption.\n 3.  Value added components.\n 4.  Fixed assets and other selected variables. \n\n\n\nStatistical unit:\nThe statistical unit, which exercises economic activity here, is the vehicle.\n\nMain Economic Activity: \nIt is operation or a group of operations, which output a group of goods and services, and contribute for the main gross value added in the establishment.\n\nNumber of persons engaged:\nIncludes unpaid owners and family members, and paid employees (permanent and temporary).\n\nCompensation of employees: \nWages, salaries and other allowances and remuneration in cash or in kind.\n\nOutput:\nThe output is the value of goods and services, including own-account goods, produced     during a specific period.\n\nIntermediate consumption:\nIt is the value of production inputs from both goods and services.\n\nGross value added:\nOutput minus intermediate consumption.\n\nTaxes on production less subsidies: \nTaxes assessed on producers regarding production, sale, purchase or use of goods and     services, less production subsidies.\n\nDepreciation:\nIt is the value of assets, which written off in the reference year.  \n\nOperating Surplus:\nValue added - (compensation of employees + taxes on production less subsidies +     depreciation)\n\nRemaining West Bank:\nIn this report it refers to all of the West Bank excluding that     part of Jerusalem which was annexed after the 1967 occupation by Israel.\n\nJerusalem:\nIn this report means that part of Jerusalem which was annexed after the 1967 occupation by Israel."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":" PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority  "}],"sampling_procedure":"Frame: \nIt is a list of barking that, collected in the frame survey which amounted (470) barking, and included Taxi barking, Privet barking, Freight Transport by Road barking, for the vehicles model (2000 below, and 2001 up).  Where the frame amounted to (10,189) vehicles. \n\nSample Design:\nThe design used is a random cluster stratified sample: \nQuota sample proportional to the size of the station.  The sample size amounted to (1668) vehicles of the total (10087) vehicles that comprise the survey frame.\n\nSample Clusters:\nBarking divided to clusters on the following levels:\n1. Transport kind: Vehicles divided according to its activity to:\n\u00b7Taxi passengers.\n\u00b7Privet passengers.\n\u00b7Freight transport by road.\n\n2. Vehicles model: Vehicles divided according to its model to:\n\u00b7Model 2000 below.\n\u00b7Model 2001 up","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"The questionnaire of the transport survey- informal sector was designed to take into account major economic variables pertaining to the examined phenomenon and it meets the needs of the Palestinian National Accounts. Which contains the following questions:\n\u00b7Questions about vehicle.\n\u00b7Persons engaged and their compensations.\n\u00b7Value of output from main activity.\n\u00b7Intermediate consumption.\n\u00b7Indirect taxes.\n\u00b7Fixed assets.","coll_situation":"Data Collection Method\nFieldworkers collect data through personal interviews with the owners or the managers of the selected economic establishments.\n\nFieldwork editing\nFieldworkers and supervisors make an initial formally and technically editing depends on prepared editing rules.\n\nOffice Editing\nThe filled questionnaires are subjected to editing where the inaccurate questionnaires resend to the fieldwork again to correct the mistakes and to complete the missing parts. \n\nCoding\nAfter finish editing process the completed questionnaires subject to coding process to be prepared to the data entry process.","act_min":"This section presents technical notes concerning the statistical quality of the collected data, which should be taken into consideration as follows: \n\nSelection and Training of Field workers \nField workers are subjected to personal interviews and undergo certain practical and theoretical training to provide them with the key components and the definitions of the questionnaire.  The best trainees who pass the theoretical and practical training chosen to collect data.\n\nFieldwork Management and Organization\nFieldwork directorate supervises data collection and coordinate to the fieldworkers to perform the set plans for each survey.  The fieldwork staff constitute of coordinators, supervisors in addition to the editing staff.  Implementing this mission requires the existence of district offices close to working areas to be used as centers for fieldwork staff and fieldwork tools.","weight":"The sampling weight of the vehicle 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 vehicles' selection from another one.","cleaning_operations":"Data Processing\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.\n\nData Entry Training:\nThe data entry training begins before the data entry process, the training is of tow parts theoretically and practically.\n\nData Entry Administrative:\nThe Information System Directorate administrates the whole process with all its requirements.  The data entry team is of data entry employees and a supervisor.\n\nEditing of Data Entry:\nThere are tow steps:\nFirst: throughout the data entry itself since the program itself is available to correct mistakes in data entry.\nSecond: Listing of questionnaires which are still have mistakes in data entry.\n\nData Tabulation:\nA primary tables are exerted after the process of data entry and editing.  A process of editing data is being taken to have at the end a final correct data tables.","method_notes":"Technical Notes\nThere are important technical notes which should be taken into consideration when reviewing this report, which are as follows:\n1.Intermediate consumption excluded insurance premiums. \n2.Simple changes in values of same variables in the tables are noticeable due to the data processing.\n\nFor survey purposes the following exchange rates were utilized:\nUS dollar \/ New Israeli Shekel = 3.5816  \nUS dollar \/ Jordanian Dinar = 0.7045"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"The Response ratio is (95.5%)","sampling_error_estimates":"Difference in Estimations\nIt is necessary to associate with an estimated statistical number by a sampling survey another one which refers to the existing accuracy in the estimation.  CENVAR program is used for estimation.  The following measures are used for the main economic indicators: \n1.Standard Error.\n2.Coefficient of Variation.\n3.DEFF.\n4.95% Confidence Interval."}},"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 \nconfidential and shall not be divulged, in whole or in part, to any individual or to a public or private body, or used \nfor 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 \nindividual 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":"\u00a9June, 2009\nAll rights reserved.\nSuggested Citation:\nPalestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 2009, Transport Survey: Informal Sector 2008,\nMain Results. Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"1. pledges  the utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof shall be limited to the purposes agreed upon including \nnot granting any third parties any access to these data. Restrictions applies to any data duplication or \ntransformed setting for purposes other than meeting the requirements of the statistical programs used in data \nanalysis.\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 \nsubjecting data to any processes or procedures aiming to derive new variables. The first party does not bear \nany professional, administrative or financial responsibility for any losses incurred as a result of changes in the \nvariables 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."}}}}