Economic Surveys Series 2014
West Bank and Gaza, 2015
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Economic Surveys Series 2014
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| West Bank and Gaza | WBG |
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
A comprehensive and detailed statistical database of any economic activity is a prerequisite for planning and policy making and this applies to economic activities that play a major role in most modern world economies.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to issue the twentieth volume of the Economic Survey of Palestine, including statistical tables of findings. This edition presents the findings of the surveys conducted for 2014 as the reference year and covers most of the economic activities operating in Palestine since 1994.
Economic surveys of various fields constitute the basic foundations for the compilation of National Accounts for Palestine. It is hoped that they will also fulfill the various needs and expectations of users in both the public and private sectors.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Enterprises
Version
V1.0: version (datasets for public use)
2015-10-21
Scope
- The persons engaged in enterprise and compensation of these employees.
- Value of output from the main activity and secondary activity.
- Production inputs of goods and services.
- Payments and transfers.
- Taxes on production.
- Assets and capital formation.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| economic conditions and indicators [1.2] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
Palestine
The twentieth round of the economic survey series was conducted based on the Establishments Census of 2012. The economic surveys series cover activities in accordance with ISIC-4 (fifth digit).
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | State of Palestine |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Palestine | financial |
| The Representative Office of Norway | financial |
| Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | financial |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Palestine | CFG | financial |
| The Representative Office of Norway | CFG | financial |
| Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | CFG | financial |
Sampling
The sample of the economic surveys series is a single-stage stratified random-systematic sample in which enterprises were divided into two types: the first type is overall enterprises taken comprehensively, the second type is enterprises chosen in a symmetric random way in which the enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU). Three levels of strata were used to draw up an efficient representative sample.
- The frame was separated into three geographical locations: the West Bank excluding the areas of Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967; the Gaza Strip; and the areas of Jerusalem annexed by Israel in 1967.
- Strata were created based on the fourth digit of ISIC-4, in which every activity presents actual strata.
- Within each strata, new strata were created according to employment size.
The sample size in 2014 was 9,167 enterprises out of the 130,747 enterprises comprising the survey frame.
Response rate: 89.3%.
Information about the weights can be found in the User's Guide under the Downloads section.
Survey instrument
All of the economic surveys series used the same questionnaire, with a few different characteristics for each survey. The design of the 2014 questionnaire took into account the major economic variables pertaining to the sector examined and the needs to be met to compile the National Accounts for Palestine.
The questionnaire included these variables:
- The persons engaged in enterprise and compensation of these employees.
- Value of output from the main activity and secondary activity.
- Production inputs of goods and services.
- Payments and transfers.
- Taxes on production.
- Assets and capital formation.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2015-04-12 | 2015-07-30 |
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | 2014-12-31 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian National Authority |
Field visits were conducted by survey's management team to ensure data collection was carried out according to standards.
The interviewers in the fieldwork are selected from the experienced ones in the statistical work and they are also trained theoretically and practically.
Data appraisal
Sampling Errors
The findings of the survey may be affected by sampling errors due to the use of sampling in conducting the surveys for units of the target population. This increases the chance of variances occurring from the actual values obtained from comprehensive enumeration. The variance of the key items in the survey was computed and dissemination was carried out on Palestine as a whole for reasons related to sample design and computation of the variance of the different indicators.
Non-Sampling Errors
These types of error may appear in one or all of the survey stages that include data collection and data entry:
Access policy
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https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/PCBS-Metadata-en-v4.3/index.php/catalog/496
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | State of Palestine | 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. |
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Economic Survey Series- 2014.Ramallah - Palestine
Disclaimer and copyrights
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Division of user services | Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Diwan@pcbs.gov.ps |
Metadata production
DDI_WBG_2015_ESS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | State of Palestine | Production of the DDI |
2021-09-07
Metadata version
Version 01 (September 2021). This version of the DDI is similar to version: DDI-PSE-PCBS-ECON-2014-V1.0, that was produced by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.