{"doc_desc":{"title":"Hotel Guests Survey 2008","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-HGS-2008-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection ,processing and dissemination of data"}],"prod_date":"2012-06-03","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0: Puplic use file"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-HGS-2008-V1.0","title":"Hotel Guests Survey 2008","alt_title":"HGS","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0646\u0632\u0644\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0646\u0627\u062f\u0642 2008"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"European Union","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"Representative Office of Norway","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"Fund Survey"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"\u00a9 All Rights Reserved.Hotel Guests Survey 2008","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"European Union","abbreviation":"EU","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"Core Funding Group","abbreviation":"CFG","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"NOR","role":"Fund Survey"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDC","role":""}]},"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":"1-2-3 Survey, phase 1 [hh\/123-1]"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0: Puplic Use File","version_date":"2012-06-03"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Inbound Guests","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"},{"keyword":"Resident Guests","vocab":"Concepts and Definitions glosary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"},{"keyword":"Tourism Expenditure","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 report is one of a series of expected reports to be published by PCBS on tourism according to the sub-master plan for the Tourism Statistical Department, as one of the tools for describing the status of tourism in the Palestinian Territory. The main objective of this  report is to provide reliable data on the situation of tourism in the Palestinian Territory.\nWorld attention has increased concerning the need to provide statistical data regarding tourism within the household sector. Providing such data will assist policy making and legislation and reduce the pressure on tourism. As in the rest of the world, attention has greatly increased in Palestine to provide such data after many years of negligence regarding tourism marked by the absence of standards and regulations during the period of the Israeli occupation \nThis report is one of a series of expected reports to be published by PCBS on tourism according to the sub-master plan for the Tourism Statistical Department, as one of the tools for describing the status of tourism in the Palestinian Territory. The main objective of this  report is to provide reliable data on the situation of tourism in the Palestinian Territory","time_periods":[{"start":"2008-06-22","end":"2008-09-30","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2008-06-22","end":"2008-08-30","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"West Bank","analysis_unit":"Hotel Guests","universe":"One resident entertainment in hotels","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"Objectives of the Survey\n  The survey provided data on\nThe characteristics of hotel guests\nThe characteristics of the visit\nThe length of stay of the visit\nThe amount and mode of expenditure during the visit"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"sampling_procedure":"Target population\n\nThe target population for this study was all guests in hotels in the West Bank, whether resident or non resident in 2008\n\nSampling frame\n\nThe sampling frame was established from the frame of the Hotel Activity Survey 2007. Tthe frame is the 72 working hotels in the West Bank. Hotels were counted during the implementation of the survey (the first stage); the frame contains information on the number of guests in 2007, nationality, characteristics and other identifying data\n\nStrata of design\nThe sample was distributed to tow strata that is\nActual strata the sample was distributed by visitor's nationality strata (resident, non resident)\nPost strata the sample was distributed by Visitor's sex, and nationality\n  \nSample size\nThe sample size was estimated to be about 2,233 visitors or guests distributed among West Bank hotels\n\nDesign a sample survey\nThe sample was a stratified random sample of a regular one stage\nA selected randomly stratified sample of guests from the hotel which was visited. A different sample of guests at each hotel was selected depending on the size of the hotel (the number of guests in the hotel data 2007)\n\nDistribution of the sample\nThe distribution sample of the guests on hotels in proportion to the size of each stratum of guests (nationality: resident, non resident)\n\nPublish levels\nFirst level West Bank\nAnd according to the guest nationality (3 nationalities)\nSecond level (North, Central, Jerusalem, South) West Bank","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"Survey  Questionnaire\n\nThe survey questionnaire was the main tool for gathering information, so it must conform to the technical specifications of the field work phase, and should meet the requirements of data processing and analysis. The questionnaire was designed after considering the methodologies and the recommendations of the United Nations on tourism statistics and taking into account the specificities of the Palestinian community in this aspect","coll_situation":"The forms were filled through personal interview of the hotel guests","act_min":"The field team was provided with all the tools and supplies of field work, and the number of crew working on the project (11), including Coordinator of field work (1) and supervisors of the Jerusalem area within the barriers (1) and auditors as well as librarians (9) field researcher","weight":"Primary weight is calculated for the visitor or the form of the class as a sample designing strata and arrivals, Local","cleaning_operations":"Data Processing \nThe data processing stage consisted of the following operations \nEditing and coding before data entry: All questionnaires were edited and coded in the     office using the same instructions adopted for editing in the field   \nData entry At this stage, data was entered into the computer using a data entered template written in Access. The data entry program was prepared to satisfy a number of requirements such as\nDuplication of the questionnaires on the computer screen \nLogical and consistency check of data entered \nPossibility for internal editing of question 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 analytic systems such as SPSS"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"Response rate:  %93.6","sampling_error_estimates":"Accuracy\n This includes examination of the accuracy of the data in the survey and different aspects of the errors highlighted by the use of the statistical sample, as well as non-statistical errors due to the work crew surveying tools, in addition to response rates in the survey and the most important influences on the estimates. This section includes the following\n\nStatistical errors\n These are errors resulting from a study (sample) of the society and not all units of society. This survey was implemented on the basis of the sample and therefore data errors could affect the survey results due to the use of a statistical sample rather than a comprehensive inventory of units in the community study, and certainly the emergence of differences. The values that we expect to be real are obtained through censuses. Calculations can have differences in the related variables\n\n Non-statistical errors \nThe data collection process is characterized with privacy, as a result of the nature of this subject, that the interrogation process is subjected to greater potential for errors, because the answers to many questions are objective and depends on the assessment of the person, and therefore affected by the researcher degree of consciousness at the interrogation and other affecting circumstances"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law \nNo. (5) for Year 2000\nArticle 17\nAll 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 \n 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, 2008.  Hotel Guests Survey, Main Results, 2008. Executive Summary. 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"}}}}