{"doc_desc":{"title":"Housing Conditions Survey 2010","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-HCS-2010-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, Processing and dissemination of data"}],"prod_date":"2011-08-25","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0 (puplic use file)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-HCS-2010-V1.0","title":"Housing Conditions Survey 2010","alt_title":"HCS","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0638\u0631\u0648\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0643\u0646 2010"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Fund survey"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Fund survey"},{"name":"The Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Fund survey"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"","affiliation":"","role":""},{"name":"","affiliation":"","role":""}],"copyright":"\u00a9 All rights reserved. Palestinian Central BureauofStatistices,Housing Conditions Survey, 2010","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"Fund survey"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","abbreviation":"CFG","role":"Fund survey"},{"name":"Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC).","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"Fund survey"}]},"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":"Other Household Survey [hh\/oth]","series_info":"Periodic every 3 years and this survey is the fourth cicyle.The cicyle of the survey were conducted in 2000,2003,2006,2010"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0 (Puplic use file)","version_date":"2011-04-03"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Housing unit","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"housing [10.1]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"A series of basic requirements have to be met for a housing unit (regardless of its type and inhabitant) to be adequate for living purposes, such as hygiene and privacy  Thus, a healthy housing unit would be the one that provides enough space for living and sleeping (rooms and bedrooms) for eating (a kitchen) as well as ventilated exposed to sunlight,toilet facilitieselectricity and drinking water installation\n\nHenceforth, we realize that the housing unit should constitute a basic requirement of the living conditions for Palestinians living in the Palestinian Territory and it is therefore important to provide data on housing conditions, housing unit characteristics and housing density\n\nThis report includes the main results of Housing Conditions Survey (HCS) in the Palestinian Territory  PCBS implemented the survey annex to the Labour Force Survey during the period  1-10 -to 31-12-2010\n\nObjectives of the Survey\nThe Housing Conditions Survey 2010 is the fourth specialized survey on the indicators of housing conditions that was carried out by PCBS. The Survey's questionnare included the main indicators about housing conditions\n\nThis survey aims at providing general reliable data on housing conditions in the Palestinian Territory  regional data for the West Bank and Gaza Strip and data by type of locality (urban, rural and refugee camps).  This survey is to be carried out once every three years","time_periods":[{"start":"2010-01-01","end":"2010-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2010-10-02","end":"2010-12-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"Palestinian Territory","analysis_unit":"households","universe":"All  the  household","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Year of completing housing unit construction\n\nType of housing unit\n\nTenure of housing unit\n\nNumber of rooms in the housing unit.\n\nNumber of bed rooms in the housing unit\n\nHousing density\n\nAvailability of (water and electricity supplies, sewage network, phone line\u2026etc)\n\nAvailability of durable goods\n\nHousing Unit close to Public Service\n\nHouseholds need for housing units"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority "}],"sampling_procedure":"Target Population\nIt consists of all Palestinian households and persons who are normally residents in the   Palestinian Territories during 2010.\n\nSample Frame\nThe sampling frame consists of all enumeration areas which were enumerated in 2007; each numeration area consists of buildings and housing units with average of about 124 households in it. These enumeration areas are used as primary sampling units PSUs in the first stage of the sampling selection, then the households' frame for the chosen enumeration area in the first stage  is used in selecting the households in the second stage \n\nSampling design\nThe sample is stratified cluster sample with two stages:\nFirst stage: selection of a systematic random sample of 502 enumeration areas, excluding  enumeration area that contain less than 40 households.\nSecond stage\n selection of a random area sample of average 16 households from each enumeration area selected in the first stage, then  selection of 16 households from each  Enumeration Area that contain 80 households or more and then selection of 8 households from each  EA that contain less than 80 households \n\nStratification\nThe population was divided byGovernorates\nType of Locality (urban, rural, refugee camps)\n\nSample Unit\nIn the first stage, the sampling units are the enumeration areas (clusters) from the master sample. In the second stage, the sampling units are households.\n\nSample Size\nThe estimated sample size is the same as for the LFS sample size in Fourth Quarter which is equal 7,820 household","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"In light of specifying the data needs, the questionnaire was developed after reviewing The design of the questionnaire for the Housing Conditions Survey was based on the experiences of similar countries as well as on international standards and recommendations for the most important indicators, taking into account the special situation of the Palestinian Territory","coll_situation":"A plan for the fieldwork for both regions was placed.  At this stage, the fieldwork Fieldwork activities started on  and Fieldworkers were distributed to all governorates proportional to the sample size of each governorate.  The fieldwork team consisted of 24 members, including one fieldwork coordinator, 4 supervisors,  4 editors and 15 interviewers","act_min":"A plan for the fieldwork for both regions was placed.  At this stage, the fieldwork Fieldwork activities started on . Fieldworkers were distributed to all governorates proportional to the sample size of each governorate.  The fieldwork team consisted of 24 members, including one fieldwork coordinator, 4 supervisors,  4 editors and 15 interviewers","weight":"The weight of statistical units (sampling unit) in the sample is defined as the mathematical inverse of the selection probability where the sample of the survey is two stage stratified cluster sample. Thus, the weights are calculated for each stage and the primary Households Weights is the multiplication of the two weights\n\nThe primary weights for the households is adjusted to compensate for the non response of households and to be compatible with population size. This is done by calculating the adjustment factor for households weights and adjustment levels (Governorate and locality type) using households projection  by adjustment levels in 2010","cleaning_operations":"To prevent the duplication of the questionnaires during data entry\nTo apply integrity  and consistency checks of entered data\nTo handle errors in user friendly manner\nThe ability  to transfer captured data to another format for data analysis using statistical analysis software such as SPSS"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"91.37%\n\nSome of the households were not in their houses and the interviewers could not meet them\n\nSome of the households did not give enough attention to the questionnaire\n \nSome errors occurred due to the way the questions were asked by interviewers\n\nMisunderstanding of the questions by the respondents\n\nAnswering the questions related to monthly rent by making estimations","sampling_error_estimates":"Sampling Errors\nThese types of errors evolved as a result of studying only part of the population and not all of it. Because this is a sampled survey, the data will be affected by sampling errors due to using a sample and not the whole frame of the population. Differences appear compared with the actual values that could be obtained through a census\n\nNon Sampling Errors\nThese errors are due to non-response cases as well as the implementation of surveys.   In this survey, these errors emerged because of (a) the special content of the questionnaire itself, which some parts depend partially on estimation, (b) diversity of sources (e.g., the interviewers, respondents, editors, coders, data entry operator, etc)\nThe sources of these errors can be summarized as\nSome of the households were not in their houses and the interviewers could not meet them\nSome of the households did not give enough attention to the questionnaire.  \nSome errors occurred due to the way the questions were asked by interviewers\nMisunderstanding of the questions by the respondents\nAnswering the questions related to monthly rent by making estimations"}},"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":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics,  Housing Conditions Survey 2010, V 1.0 (04-2011) 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 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) provide you with the data as is, without any warranty or responsibility implied. PCBS accepts no responsibility for the results and\/or implications of any analysis and\/or other actions conducted with this data"}}}}