The Environmental Survey for Health Care Centers 2012
West Bank and Gaza, 2012
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The Environmental Survey for Health Care Centers 2012
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| West Bank and Gaza | WBG |
Administrative Records, Health (ad/hea]
This survey started on 20/03/2012 and lasted until 15/10/2012. This is the ninth circle.
This survey is based on the health care centers administration records; it provides data on the main indicators of environment in the governmental and non-governmental organizations working in the health care sector, including water, management of health care waste, and management of wastewater
Sample survey data [ssd]
Health care centers
Version
V1.0(Public use file)
2012-12-30
Scope
The main objective of this survey is to make overview about the main indicators of environment in the health care centers in three sectors (governmental, non-governmental organizations and private sector), which include:
• Water consumption.
• Management of wastewater.
• Management of health care waste.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| health care and medical treatment [8.5] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
Palestinian Territory.
The target population of the survey includes all Health Care Centers (Governmental and Non-governmental) in the West Bank, divided into:
- Governmental Health Care Centers including Ministry of Health, Health Care Military Service, and Lijan Azakah.
- Non-governmental Health Care Centers including Health Union Committees, Union of Palestine Health Care Relief Committees, Patients Friends Benevolent Society, UNRWA, Red Crescent Society, and Red Cross in the West Bank.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian National Authority |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Health | Palestinian National Authority | Collecting Data |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Core Funding Group | survey finance |
| Palestinian National Authority | survey finance |
| UK Department for International Development | survey finance |
| The European Commission | survey finance |
| The World Bank | survey finance |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Representative Office of Norway to the PNA | Core Funding Group | survey finance |
| Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | Core Funding Group | survey finance |
Sampling
The frame for all centers in the health care sector operated by governmental and non-governmental authorities is updated annually by the PCBS through administrative records. The private health care sector was not covered in this report.
Not Applicable
Response rate was 93%
It is necessary when calculating estimates of survey indicators to calculate weights, so that each analysis unit weight proportionate with the probability of selection of the unit from the target population, therefore the weights of primary care centers have been calculated when they were selected from frame, and after the completion of the data collection phase the weights were modified to compensate for non-response cases.
Survey instrument
The environmental questionnaire was designed in accordance with similar country experiments and according to international standards and recommendations for the most important indicators, taking into account the special situation of the Palestinian Territory.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2012-03-20 | 2012-10-15 |
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 | 2012-12-31 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics |
Field work visits.
The fieldwork is necessary to obtain the required data from the primary source, and guarantee a good orthopedist for this stage is the main affair which works on in this stage.
Fieldwork covers the data collection from the primary sources. All necessary technical and administrative preparation were setup prior to fieldwork operations.
The data in this report come from two sources and each one has a method for collecting data about the Health Care Centers (Governmental and Non-Governmental).
The data that comes from administrative records involved delivering the questionnaires to respondents to be self-filled, during the period 20/03/2012 to 15/10/2012.
Data processing
The data processing stage contains of the following operations:
- Editing before data entry: all questionnaires were edited again in the office using the same instructions adopted for editing in the fields.
- Data entry: In this stage data were entered into the computer, using Access database. The data entry program was prepared to satisfy a number of requirements such as:
- Duplication of the questionnaire on the computer screen.
- Logical and consistency check of data entered.
- Possibility for internal editing of questions answers.
- Maintaining a minimum of digital data entry and fieldwork errors.
- User-friendly handling.
- Possibility of transferring data into another format to be used and analyzed using other statistical analytical systems such as SAS and SPSS
Access policy
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/PCBS-Metadata-en-v4.3/index.php/catalog/605
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian National Authority | www.pcbs.gov.ps | diwan@pcbs.gov.ps |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | General Statistics Law No. (5) for Year 2000 Article (17( 1. 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. 2. 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. |
- 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.
2.Restrictions applies to any data duplication or transformed setting for purposes other than meeting the requirements of the statistical programs used in data analysis.
3.Utilization of "data" or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally. 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.
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, The Environmental Survey for Health Care Centers 2012. V1.0 (12-2012). Ramallah - Palestine.
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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.
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Division of user services | Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) | diwan@pcbs.gov.ps |
Metadata production
WBG_2012_ESHCC_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian National Authority | Collecting, Processing and Publishing data |
2021-09-27
Metadata version
Version 01 (September 2021). This version is similar to the original version (DDI-PSE-PCBS-ESHC-2012-V1.0) that was documented by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics except for the DDI ID and Study ID fields that were updated.