{"doc_desc":{"title":"Economic Surveys Series 2014","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-ECON-2014-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"State of Palestine","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data"}],"prod_date":"2015-12-02","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0 Version 1.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-ECON-2014-V1.0","title":"Economic Surveys Series 2014","alt_title":"ECON","translated_title":"\u0633\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0648\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0642\u062a\u0635\u0627\u062f\u064a\u0629 2014"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"State of Palestine"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Palestine","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial    "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial    "},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial    "}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics ,2015.  Economic Survey Series . 2014 .","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE","role":"financial    "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"NOR","role":"financial    "},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"financial    "}],"grant_no":"CFG CFG"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of user services","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","email":"Diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0: version (datasets for public use)","version_date":"2015-10-21"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Transport and Storage","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"},{"keyword":"Communication & Information","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"},{"keyword":"Construction Contractors","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"},{"keyword":"Industrial","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"},{"keyword":"Services","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"},{"keyword":"Internal Trade","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"economic conditions and indicators [1.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"A comprehensive and detailed statistical database of any economic activity is a prerequisite for planning and policy making and this applies to economic activities that play a major role in most modern world economies.\n\nThe Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to issue the Twentieth volume of the Economic Survey of Palestine, including statistical tables of findings. This edition presents the findings of the surveys conducted for 2014 as the reference year and covers most of the economic activities operating in Palestine since 1994. \n\nEconomic surveys of various fields constitute the basic foundations for the compilation of National Accounts for Palestine.  It is hoped that they will also fulfill the various needs and expectations of users in both the public and private sectors.","time_periods":[{"start":"2014-01-01","end":"2014-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2015-04-12","end":"2015-07-30","cycle":"yearly"}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"Palestine","analysis_unit":"Enterprises","universe":"The twentieth round of the economic survey series was conducted based on the Establishments Census of 2012. The economic surveys series cover activities in accordance with ISIC-4 (fifth digit).\n\nThe sample of the economic surveys series is a single-stage stratified random-systematic sample in which enterprises were divided into two types: the first type is overall enterprises taken comprehensively, the second type is enterprises chosen in a symmetric random way in which the enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU). Three levels of strata were used to draw up an efficient representative sample.\n1.The frame was separated into three geographical locations: the West Bank excluding the areas of Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967; the Gaza Strip; and the areas of Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967. \n2.Strata were created based on the fourth digit of ISIC-4, in which every activity presents actual strata.\n3.Within each strata, new strata were created according to employment size.\n\nThe sample size in 2014 was 9,167 enterprises out of the 130,747 enterprises comprising the survey frame.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"1. The persons engaged in enterprise and compensation of these employees.\n2. Value of output from the main activity and secondary activity. \n3. Production inputs of goods and services.\n4. Payments and transfers.\n5. Taxes on production.\n6. Assets and capital formation."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority "}],"sampling_procedure":"The sample of the economic surveys series is a single-stage stratified random-systematic sample in which enterprises were divided into two types: the first type is overall enterprises taken comprehensively, the second type is enterprises chosen in a symmetric random way in which the enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU). Three levels of strata were used to draw up an efficient representative sample.\n1.The frame was separated into three geographical locations: the West Bank excluding the areas of Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967; the Gaza Strip; and the areas of Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967. \n2.Strata were created based on the fourth digit of ISIC-4, in which every activity presents actual strata.\n3.Within each strata, new strata were created according to employment size.\n\nThe sample size in 2014 was 9,167 enterprises out of the 130,747 enterprises comprising the survey frame.","coll_mode":["Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]"],"research_instrument":"All of the economic surveys series used the same questionnaire, with a few different characteristics for each survey. The design of the 2014 questionnaire takes into account the major economic variables pertaining to the sector examined and the needs to be met to compile the National Accounts for Palestine.\nThe questionnaire included these variables:\n1. The persons engaged in enterprise and compensation of these employees.\n2.  Value of output from the main activity and secondary activity. \n3.  Production inputs of goods and services.\n4.  Payments and transfers.\n5.  Taxes on production.\n6.  Assets and capital formation.","coll_situation":"The interviewers in the fieldwork are selected from the experienced ones in the statistical work and they are also trained theoretically and practically.","act_min":"Field visits were conducted by survey's management team to ensure data collection was carried out according to standards","weight":"Weighting Calculation:\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.\n\n\nEstimation Calculation:\nTo calculate a variable as Y in a partial society as A on a study as D, we use the following:\n\n: it the estimated sum of the variable Y in a partial society A in a study D.\nh:      Strata code.\nJ:      the register code in the data file of the partial society A.\nA:     a partial group from the registers related to a specific partial society.\nD:     a study scope as a specific governorate.\nWhj: the weight of the analytical unit No. \u201cj\u201d in a partial society A in a strata h in a study D.\n\n\nVariance Calculation\n\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."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"Response rate: 89.3%.","sampling_error_estimates":"Sampling Errors\nThe findings of the survey may be affected by sampling errors due to the use of sampling in conducting the surveys for units of the target population. This increases the chance of variances occurring from the actual values obtained from comprehensive enumeration. The variance of the key items in the survey was computed and dissemination was carried out on Palestine as a whole for reasons related to sample design and computation of the variance of the different indicators.\n\nNon-Sampling Errors\nThese types of error may appear in one or all of the survey stages that include data collection and data entry:"}},"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, \n     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":"State of Palestine","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Economic Survey Series- 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 value","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."}}}}