{"doc_desc":{"title":"Inbound Visitors Survey 2009","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-IVS-2009-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data"}],"prod_date":"2011-08-08","version_statement":{"version":"VI.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-IVS-2009-V1.0","title":"Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009","alt_title":"IVS","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0648\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0641\u062f\u064a\u0646 2009"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Tourism and Antiquities Police","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":""},{"name":"Association of Tour Guides in the West Bank","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"\u00a9 All rights reserved. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009. Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"Funding of survey"},{"name":"European Union","abbreviation":"EU","role":"Funding of survey"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","abbreviation":"CFG","role":"Funding of survey"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"Funding of 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":"Administrative Records, Other (ad\/oth]"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0","version_date":"2011-08-08"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Visitor","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"},{"keyword":"Purpose of the Visit","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"leisure, tourism and sport [13.4]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"This survey reflects the data for the year 2009, and provides us with the main data about the inbound visitor and his\/her behavior during the visit, such as the expenditures, main purpose of the visit, which is related to overnight-stay tourists. \nThe survey provided data on: \nThe characteristics of visitors\nThe characteristics of the visit\nThe length of stay of the visit\nThe amount and mode of expenditure during the visit","time_periods":[{"start":"2008-08-31","end":"2009-07-01","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2008-08-31","end":"2009-07-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"West Bank Governerate","analysis_unit":"Visitors to tourism areas","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Percentage Distribution of Most Frequent Nationality of Inbound Visitors,Tourist Sites Visitors ,Average Expenditure of the Inbound Visitors"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority "}],"sampling_procedure":"Target Population\nThe target population for this study was all guests in hotels in the West Bank, whether resident or non resident, in 2009.\n\nSampling Frame\nFramework was created under the preview of visitor arrivals in 2008, and the frame is a list of arrivals by nationality, month, and the governorate.  The preview window consists of the tourist sites in the north, central, and south of the West Bank, and Jerusalem, and regions where a police officer is at each site of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and\/or a tour guide accompanied the visitors.\n\nSample Size\nThe sample size was estimated to be about 2500 visitors distributed among the West Bank sites and attractions.\n\n Sample Survey Design \nThis sample survey is a stratified random sample of visitors in the Palestinian territory and units are the areas in the West Bank (including regions: north, central, and south, and Jerusalem). A different sample of visitors at each site was selected depending on the number of visitors during the previous year 2008\n\nDistribution Of The Sample\nThe distributed sample of visitors to tourist sites frequented by visitors in a manner proportional to the number of visitors to sites during the previous year 2008","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"coll_situation":"Data Collection\nData collection on visitors was through the questionnaires distributed to them by the fieldworkers, and in coordination with the tour guide and \/ or officer of tourism police located at the site, after knowledge of the appropriate language for visitors coming, where the translation of questionnaires for more than six languages.  And cooperate both the policeman and the tour guide with a fieldworkers in the process of transfer of the idea and objective of the survey for the visitor in his own language, which helped a lot in the process of urging visitors to fill the questionnaires that are distributed to them","weight":"NO WEIGHITING"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"NO RESPONSE","sampling_error_estimates":"-"}},"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, Population, Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009\n V 1.0  (08-2011). 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":"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"}}}}