{"doc_desc":{"title":"Environmental Survey for Health Care Centers, 2008","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-ESHC-2008-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"(PCBS)","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data"}],"prod_date":"2011-11-23","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-ESHC-2008-V1.0","title":"Environmental Survey for Health Care Centers, 2008","alt_title":"ESHC","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0628\u064a\u0626\u0629 \u0644\u0645\u0631\u0627\u0643\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0639\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u062d\u064a\u0629\u060c 2008"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Survey finance"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Survey finance"},{"name":"Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Survey finance"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Ministery of Health","affiliation":"","role":"Questionaire Distribution"}],"copyright":"\u00a9 All Rights Reserved.  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Environmental Survey for Health Care Centers, 2008.","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"Survey finance"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","abbreviation":"CFG","role":"Survey finance"},{"name":"Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"Survey finance"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of user service","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Administrative Records, Health (ad\/hea]","series_info":"This report presents the main findings of the Health Care Environmental Survey.  It is one of a series of expected reports to be published by PCBS on the environment and natural resources in Palestine according to the plan for the Environment Statistical Department, as a tool for describing the status of environment in the Palestinian Territory.\nThe frequency of implementing the survey is 2 years."},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0:  (Public use file)","version_date":"2011-11-24"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Dumping Site","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions Glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"},{"keyword":"Wastewater","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions Glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"Health care and medical treatment [8.5]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"Environmental statistics in the health care centers are very interested and these statistics are an important instrument to make decisions, planning, and draw the outlines for environment.   And relating to infrequency of data about this subject in the Palestinian Territory, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) builds up and develop a database about the environment in the health care centers.\nFor all of this PCBS implemented a specialist surveys on the environmental of governmental sector, and non-governmental organizations health sector through administrative records during the period 20\/03\/2008 to 01\/10\/2008, and for health private sector environmental economic survey was implemented during the period 20\/04\/2008 to 03\/08\/2008.\nThe main objective of this survey is to provide statistical data about the health care centers on the following indicators: \n\u00b7Water consumption and water sources \n\u00b7Wastewater \n\u00b7Medical waste management","time_periods":[{"start":"2088-02-01","end":"2008-02-28","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2008-03-20","end":"2008-10-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"Palestinian Territory.","analysis_unit":"Health Care Center","universe":"The target population of this survey is all health care centers in the Palestinian Territory, divided into: \n1.Governmental health care centers (Ministry of Health, Health Care Military Service, and Lijan Azakah).\n2.Non-governmental health care centers (Health Union Committees, Union of Palestine Health Care Relief Committees, Patients Friends Benevolent Society, UNRWA, Red Crescent Society, and Red Cross) in the Palestinian Territory. \n3.Private health care sector.","data_kind":"Administrative records data [adm]","notes":"The main objective of this survey is to provide statistical data about the health care centers on the following indicators: \n\u00b7Water consumption and water sources \n\u00b7Wastewater \n\u00b7Medical waste management"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority "},{"name":"Ministery Of Health","abbreviation":"MOH","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority "}],"sampling_procedure":"The Governmental health care centers was comprehensive enumeration, where as the sample of the Non-governmental health care centers was a single-stage stratified cluster random sample.","sampling_deviation":"PCBS fieldworker team was unable to obtain the survey data in the Gaza Strip from the field, but data for 2008 were estimated from a survey data for the years 2003-2006.  For further data assessment methodology can be found the fourth chapter of this report.","coll_mode":["Self Assessment Directed Questionnaire [SAQ]"],"research_instrument":"The environmental questionnaire was designed in accordance with similar country experiments and according to international standards and recommendations for the most important indicators, taking into account the special situation of the Palestinian Territory.\nStages of designing and checking the questionnaire:\nThe questionnaire design passed the following steps:\n\u00b7It was referred to the UN recommendations\n\u00b7It was referred to PCBS questionnaires in this field such as household environmental survey, industrial environmental survey and. economical environmental survey.\n\u00b7A draft questionnaire was suggested.\n\u00b7Finally, a filling questionnaire and editing instructions was prepared.\nQuestionnaire divisions:\n\u00b7Cover page with data about the health care center\n\u00b7Water and wastewater\n\u00b7Solid waste management\nEnvironmental assessment","coll_situation":"Data from the Gaza Strip should be handled carefully because is not collected from fieldwork but it's a estimated data form data collected in the same methods in several year (2003-2006).\nWater quantities, and solid waste quantities were based on the estimations by respondents.","act_min":"Fieldwork\nThe fieldwork is necessary to obtain the required data from the primary source, and guarantee a good orthopedist for this stage is the main affair which works on in this stage.\nThe data in this report come from two sources and each one has a method for collecting data about the health care centers.\nThe data which comes from administrative records source, involved apportioning the questionnaires to the respondents to be filled by themselves, during 20\/03\/2008 to 01\/10\/2008.   \nConcerning the data which comes from the sampling survey collected by fieldworkers during 20\/04\/2008 to 03\/08\/2008, this type of collection method must pass two stages: \n1.Training fieldworkers on the main skills before the start of data collection. \n2.Distribution of the team of fieldworkers into groups.","weight":"The weight  is used  to substitue for the non-response cases.","cleaning_operations":"The data processing stage contain of the following operations:\nEditing before data entry: all questionnaires were edited again in the office using the same instructions adopted for editing in the fields.\nData entry: In this stage data were entered into the computer, using Access database.   The data entry program was prepared to satisfy a number of requirements such as:\nDuplication of the questionnaire on the computer screen.\nLogical and consistency check of data entered.\nPossibility for internal editing of questions answers.\nMaintaining a minimum of digital data entry and fieldwork errors.\nUser-Friendly handling.\nPossibility of transferring data into another format to be used and analyzed using other statistical analytical systems such as SAS and SPSS."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"None response rate =  (Sum of none response cases \/ Net sample)  x 100%       \n                               = (455\/3,660) x 100% = 12%\nResponse rate = 100% - none response rate\n                       = 100% - 12% = 88%","sampling_error_estimates":"These types of errors evolved as a result of studying a part of the society and not all of it, and because this survey is sample based, the data of this survey will be affected by sampling errors due to using a sample and not the whole frame of the society, and therefore differences appear compared with the actual values that could be obtained through a census. For this survey, variance calculations were made for amounts of water consumed in the economic establishments by region and activity, and the main source of obtaining water in the economic establishments by region and activity."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law No. (5) for Year 2000\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, Environmental Survey for Health Care  Centers, 2008.  V1.0 (11-2011).  Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"1. Pledges  the utilization of \u201cdata\u201d 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.\n2. Utilization of \u201cdata\u201d or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally .\n3. Pledges not to alter the value of any observation in the original \u201cdata\u201d; 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."}}}}