{"doc_desc":{"title":"Labor Force Survey 1997","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-LFS-1997-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian Nationa Authority","role":"Production and execute the survey"}],"prod_date":"2017-03-23","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (March \/ 2017)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-LFS-1997-V1.0","title":"Labor Force Survey 1997","alt_title":"LFS","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0648\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 1997"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"SDC","email":"","role":"responded to the survey instrument"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Product the survey"}],"copyright":"\u00a9 All Rights Reserved.Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Labor Force Survey 1997.","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"PNA","role":"Financial assistance"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"SDC","role":"Financial assistance"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of Users Services","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics ","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps ","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps "}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Labor Force Survey [hh\/lfs]","series_info":"The main objective of collecting data on the Palestinian labour force 1997  including components of employment, unemployment and underemployment, is to provide basic information on the relative size and structure of the Palestinian labour force. Data collected at different points in time provide a basis for monitoring current trends and changes in the labour market and in employment.  These data supported with information on other aspects of the economy provide a basis for the evaluation and analysis of macro-economic policies."},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 dataset for public distribution","version_date":"2017-03-23"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Occupation","vocab":"Concepts and Definition Dictionary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"},{"keyword":"Economically active population (Labour Force)","vocab":"Concepts and Definition Dictionary","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"Focuses mainly on labour force key indicators, main characteristics of the employed, unemployed, underemployed and persons outside labour force, labour force according to level of education, distribution of the employed population by occupation, economic activity, place of work, employment status, hours and days worked and average daily wage in NIS for the employees.","time_periods":[{"start":"1997-01-01","end":"1997-12-30","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"1997-01-01","end":"1997-12-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"The Data are representative at region level (West Bank, Gaza Strip), locality type (urban, rural, camp) and governorates","analysis_unit":"Household, individual","universe":"The survey covered all the Palestinian households who are a usual residence in the Palestinian Territory","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The lfs questionnaire consists of four main sections: \n\nIdentification Data:\nThe main objective for this part is to record the necessary information to identify the household, such as, cluster code, sector, type of  locality, cell, housing number and the cell code.\n\nQuality Control:\nThis part involves  groups of controlling standards to monitor the field and office operation, to keep in order the sequence of  questionnaire stages (data collection, field and office coding, data entry, editing after entry and store the data.\n\nHousehold Roster:\nThis part involves demographic characteristics  about the household, like number of persons in the household, date of birth, sex, educational level\u2026etc.\n\nEmployment Part:\nThis part involves the major  research indicators, where  one questionnaire had been answered by every 15 years and over household member, to be able to explore their labour force status and recognize their major characteristics toward employment status, economic activity, occupation, place of work, and other employment indicators."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"sampling_procedure":"Sampling Frame\nIn the absence of a population census since 1967, the major task, with regard to constructing a master sample, was developing a frame of suitable units covering the whole country.  Such units have been used as the PSUs (Primary Sampling Units) in the first stage of selection.  For the second stage of selection, all PSUs have been listed in the field at the household level. This provided a sampling frame for selecting the households.\n\n  Sample Design\nThe target population: consist of all Palestinian individuals aged 15 years and above living in West Bank and Gaza Strip, excluding nomads and persons living in institutions such as prisons, shelters.\n\nStratification\n Four levels of stratification have been made:\nStratification by District.\nStratification by type of  (Locality) which comprises: \n(a) Municipalities\t                   (b)Villages                 (c)Refugee Camps \t \nStratification by locality size.\nStratification by cell identification in that order.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"TThe lfs questionnaire consists of four main sections: \nIdentification Data:\nThe main objective for this part is to record the necessary information to identify the household, such as, cluster code, sector, type of  locality, cell, housing number and the cell code.\nQuality Control:\nThis part involves  groups of controlling standards to monitor the field and office operation, to keep in order the sequence of  questionnaire stages (data collection, field and office coding, data entry, editing after entry and store the data.\nHousehold Roster:\nThis part involves demographic characteristics  about the household, like number of persons in the household, date of birth, sex, educational level\u2026etc.\nEmployment Part:\nThis part involves the major  research indicators, where  one questionnaire had been answered by every 10 years and over household member, to be able to explore their labour force status and recognize their major characteristics toward employment status, economic activity, occupation, place of work, and other employment indicators.","coll_situation":"The purpose of the training courses was to teach participants the main skills needed to conduct interviews.  Two training courses were held, one in Ramallah for the West Bank trainees, and one in Gaza City for Gaza Strip trainees.  Each course consisted of two parts: one on survey methodology including survey design, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, and field operations; and one part on specifications of the labour force survey, including concepts and definitions, fieldwork procedures, data collection, editing, coding, tips for asking questions and recording answers, as well as field team organization and field supervision","act_min":"Re-interview\nField visits","weight":"At the first stage, clusters or \u201ccells\u201d have been selected with (PPES) probability proportional to estimated measure of size (Mi) for unit (i):\n\t\t\nWhere the summation is over all clusters in the population; a-320 is the total number of selected clusters.  It is highly desirable for the LFS to have a constant overall sampling rate (f), i.e. to have a self- weighting sample. This requires the second stage probability for the selection of households and persons within any sample cluster i to be\n\t\nWhere b is a constant (independent of i) to be determined so as to obtain the required sample size n = 7500  households.  Since the measures of size Mi are likely to differ from the actual number Li of households listed in any cluster i, the actual number of households which shall be selected with the  above f2i shall vary from one cluster to another and are given by:\n\nSumming over all clusters in the sample gives the required constant  b  to achieve the target sample size  n  as:\n\nHence to control the overall sample size,  b is determined after completing the listing in all sample areas.\n\nThe a above procedure allows for variation in sample sizes bi at the level of individual clusters, so as to provide a self-weighting sample.  Households within each sample cluster shall be selected systematically from the lists prepared for that purpose, using the sampling interval,\n\t\nWhich is fixed for each cluster but varies between clusters depending on the measure of size (Mi) with which the area was selected at the first stage.\n\nThe sample-take bi must be allowed to vary depending on the actual number of households Li found after listing.  However, provision must be made to avoid extreme variation in cluster sample size.  This could be done by using the above procedure to compute the ratio (bi\/b) for each cluster in the sample.  If this ratio lies outside the range say 0.5 - 4.0, adjust bi i.e. the interval Ii to be applied for the selection of households in the cluster, so as to keep the ratio within the above range.","cleaning_operations":"Editing before data entry\nAll questionnaires were edited again using the same instructions adopted for  editing in the field.\n\nCoding\nIn this stage, the industry underwent coding according to WBGS Standard    Commodities Classification, which is based on United Nations ISIC-3.  The industry for all  employed and ever employed individuals was classified at the fourth-digit-level.  The  occupations were coded on the basis of the International Standard Occupational Classification, 1988 at the third-digit-level (ISCO-88).\n\nData Entry\nIn this stage data were entered to the computer using a data entry template written in BLAISE.  The data entry program has satisfied many requirements  such as:\nThe duplication of the questionnaire on the computer screen.\nLogical and consistency checking of data entered.\nPossibility for internal editing of questions answers.\nMaintaining a minimum of digital data entry and field work errors.\nA User- Friendless\nPossibility of transferring data into another format to be used and analyzed using other statistical analytical systems such as SAS and SPSS.\n\nEditing after data entry\nIn this stage, all questionnaires were edited after data entry in order to minimize errors related data entry.","method_notes":"data were entered to the computer using a data entry template written in BLAISE. Data entry was organized in one files, corresponding to the main parts of the questionnaire. A data entry template was designed to reflect an exact image of the questionnaire, and included various electronic checks: logical check, range checks, consisting checks and cross-validation. Complete manual inspection of results after data entry was performed, and questionnaires containing field-related errors were sent back to the field for correction"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"\" The overall response rate for the survey was 87.1%","sampling_error_estimates":"Detailed information on the sampling Error is available in the Survey Report.","data_appraisal":"Detailed information on the data appraisal is available in the Survey Report"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law \nNo. (5) \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,Labor Force Survey 1997 . V 1.0  (03-2017). 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 user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}}}