Palestine - Transport Survey Informal Sector (Outside Establishments Sector) :2004

Start	End	Cycle
2005-02-06	2005-02-28	N/A

Start	End	Cycle
2004-01-01	2004-12-31	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collecting

a. Examine the questionnaire formally and technically.
b. Examine the forms used in fieldwork.
c. Examine titles and definition information's.
d. Study the explicit and implicit refusal cases.
e. Study the time needed to reach the establishment.

This test realized sought aims, where some notes taken about the questionnaire, data, titles and responding rates. Then the fieldwork documents took some changes depended on these notes.

Selection and Training of Field workers
Field workers are subjected to personal interviews and undergo certain practical and theoretical training to provide them with the key components and the definitions of the questionnaire. The best trainees who pass the theoretical and practical training chosen to collect data.

Fieldwork Management and Organization
Fieldwork directorate supervises data collection and coordinate to the fieldworkers to perform the set plans for each survey. The fieldwork staff constitute of coordinators, supervisors in addition to the editing staff. Implementing this mission requires the existence of district offices close to working areas to be used as centers for fieldwork staff and fieldwork tools.

Data Collection Method
Fieldworkers collect data through personal interviews with the owners or the managers of the selected economic establishments.

Fieldwork editing
Fieldworkers and supervisors make an initial formally and technically editing depends on prepared editing rules.

Office Editing
The filled questionnaires are subjected to editing where the inaccurate questionnaires resend to the fieldwork again to correct the mistakes and to complete the missing parts.


Coding
After finish editing process the completed questionnaires subject to coding process to be prepared to the data entry process.

The questionnaire of the transport survey- informal sector was designed to take into account major economic variables pertaining to the examined phenomenon and it meets the needs of the Palestinian National Accounts. Which contains the following questions:
· Questions about vehicle.
· Persons engaged and their compensations.
· Value of output from main activity.
· Intermediate consumption.
· Indirect taxes.
· Fixed assets.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics	PCBS	Palestinian National Authority

This section presents technical notes concerning the statistical quality of the collected data, which should be taken into consideration as follows:

· Many constraints were encountered during the implementation of this survey due to the Israeli measures, which restrict movement between cities and localities in the Palestinian Territory.
· Simple changes in values of same variables in the tables are noticeable due to the data processing.
· Intermediate consumption excluded insurance premiums in the table of service expenditures.