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Finance and Insurance Survey, 2004

West Bank and Gaza, 2005
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PSE-PCBS-FIINS-2004-V1.0
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  • Study Description
  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Data Processing
  • Data Appraisal
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
PSE-PCBS-FIINS-2004-V1.0
Title
Finance and Insurance Survey, 2004
Translated Title
مسح المالية والتامين 2004
Country
Name Country code
Palestine PSE
Study type
Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
Series Information
This survey provides statistics on the number of institutions operating in financial intermediation, the number of employees and their compensations, output value, intermediate consumption, gross value added with its various components, and the gross fixed capital formation of the financial sector. This survey constitutes the basic foundations for the compilation of Palestinian National Accounts and meets the various needs and expectations of users in both private and public sectors
Abstract
The survey cover financial intermediary activities (Palestinian Monetary Authority, banks, Palestine Exchange, stock market brokers, and insurance companies) were fully covered by this survey
Kind of Data
Complete enumeration [enu]
Unit of Analysis
Enterprises

Version

Version Description
V1.0 (File to publication on internet for public use)
Version Date
2005-09-10

Scope

Notes
The objective of the survey was to obtain data on:
1. Number of intermediations enterprises and persons engaged by activity
2. Value of output, intermediate consumption and stock.
3. Value added components.
4. Payments and transfers.
5. Assets and capital formation.
.
Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA Link
Keywords
Keyword Vocabulary URI
finance intermediation Glossary of Statistics Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Remaining West Bank and Gaza Strip
Universe
The survey covered all enterprises engaged in the activities classified under the tabulation category K according to ISIC-3, excluding money exchangers and insurance agents. There was full coverage of all enterprises engaged in the relevant activities.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Palestinian National Authority
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) financial
The Representative Office of Norway NOR financial
The Representative Office of Netherlands NDL financial
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) financial
Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
Name Affiliation Role
The Palestinian National Authority CFG financial
The Representative Office of Norway CFG financial
The Representative Office of Netherlands CFG financial
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation CFG financial

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The number of establishments in finance and insurance Survey for the base year 2004 frame - (46), which form the whole frame distributed in all West bank and Gaza Strip governorates depending on the Establishment Census-1997 and updates

Sample design: for all enterprises engaged in economic activities has been done, without sampling techniques
Deviations from the Sample Design
non
Response Rate
Response rate is 93.33%
Weighting
The sampling weight of the enterprise is the mathematical turned of the possibility selection of that enterprise. It is necessary to use weights in the estimation of the
survey society because of the differentiation in the possibility of enterprises' selection from another one so The weights were adjusted to compensate for non-responded
Enterprises.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End Cycle
2005-04-01 2005-08-19 Yearly
Time periods
Start date End date
2004-01-01 2004-12-31
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
Preparation stage:
This includes developing the questionnaire, manual, dummy tables, work plan, time-table, editing and coding rules.
implementation stage:
Fieldwork operations:
Due to the fact that the survey frame is small no recruitment and training for field workers was made excluding one fieldworker for Gaza Strip, but for the West Bank the technical staff had conducted the survey.

Office operations:
After the fieldwork operations, the collected questionnaires sent to the officers to be audit and coded.
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS Palestinian National Authority

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
There are three forms for financial and insurance survey2003, the first one is related to banking sector, the second is related to insurance corporation, the third is related to stock market, The questionnaire used for this survey has much in common with other questionnaires in the economic survey series. The design of the questionnaire takes into account major economic variables pertaining to the examined phenomenon and meets the needs of the Palestinian National Accounts and Balance of Payments:
1. Number of employees in a company and their compensations.
2. The output of the main and second activities.
3. Goods production inputs.
4. Various payments and transfers.
5. Indirect taxes.
6. Enterprises assets

Data Processing

Data Editing
Data processing:
For insuring quality and consistency of data a set of measures were taken in to
account for strengthening accuracy of data as follows:
· Preparing data entry program before data collection for checking readiness of the
program for data entry.
· A set of validation rules were applied on the program for checking consistency of
data.
· Efficiency of the program was checked through pre-testing in entering few
questionnaires, including incorrect information for checking its
efficiency, in capturing these information.
· Well trained data keyers were selected and trained for the main data entry.
· Weekly or by weekly data files were received by project management for
checking accuracy and consistency, notes of correction are provided for data
entry management for correction.

Data Appraisal

Estimates of Sampling Error
The findings of the survey were not affected by statistical errors due to covering all of the census in the survey
Data Appraisal
-

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Division of user services Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics diwan@pcbs.gov.ps www.pcbs.gov.ps
Confidentiality
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.
Access conditions
License Agreement for the Use of Micro Data in PCBS
items(10,11,12) as following:


1. 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.

2. Utilization of "data" or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally .

3. 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.
Citation requirements
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2005. Finance and Insurance Survey - 2004: Main Results. Ramallah - Palestine.
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Palestinian National Authority diwan@pcbs.gov.ps www.pcbs.gov.ps

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
PCBS provid data collected for purely statistical purposes, and therefore does not assume any responsibility for legal or professional from any claim or analysis or interpretation or misuse of this data.
Copyright
(c) All Rights Reserved. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-PSE-PCBS-FIINS-2004-V1.0
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS Palestinian National Authority Collection, processing and dissemination data
Date of Metadata Production
2013-09-30
DDI Document version
V1.0
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