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Energy has great importance due to its role in reflecting the country’s economy, the people’s welfare and their living standards. Also, energy data reflects the infrastructure situation.In 1996, PCBS established an energy statistics program in order to develop a national plan for energy statistics and to provide data about energy in the Palestinian Territory. Taking intoconsideration the international recommendations of the United Nations in the field of energy and the special situation of the Palestinian Territory, energy indicators were formulated through a user-producer dialogue workshop held in March 1998. Energy statistics program implemented nine rounds of household energy survey during 1999-2005.
Because of the importance of the household sector and due to it’s large contribution to energy consumption in the Palestinian Territory, PCBS decided to conduct a special household energy survey to cover energy indicators in the household sector. To achieve this, a questionnaire was attached to the Labor Force Survey. This survey aimed to provide data on energy consumption in the household sector and to provide data on energy consumption behavior in the society by type of energy. This report presents data on various energy households indicators in the Palestinian Territory, and presents statistical data on electricity and other fuel consumption for the household sector, using type of fuel by different activities (cooking, Baking, conditioning, lighting, and water heating). This report consists of five chapters: the first chapter presents the survey objectives and the report structure, the second chapter describes the definitions and explanations and the third chapter briefly describes the main findings, while the fourth chapter presents the methodology used in the survey, consisting the questionnaire design, sampling design, fieldwork operations and data processing, the last chapter includes an assessment of data quality and technical notes. |
