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Inbound-Tourism

Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009

West Bank and Gaza, 2008 - 2009
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Reference ID
PSE-PCBS-IVS-2009-V1.0
Producer(s)
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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Inbound Tourism
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  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Version
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  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Data Appraisal
  • Access policy
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  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
PSE-PCBS-IVS-2009-V1.0
Title
Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009
Translated Title
مسح الزوار الوافدين 2009
Country
Name Country code
Palestine PSE
Study type
Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth]
Abstract
This survey reflects the data for the year 2009, and provides us with the main data about the inbound visitor and his/her behavior during the visit, such as the expenditures, main purpose of the visit, which is related to overnight-stay tourists.
The survey provided data on:
The characteristics of visitors
The characteristics of the visit
The length of stay of the visit
The amount and mode of expenditure during the visit
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Visitors to tourism areas

Version

Version Description
V1.0
Version Date
2011-08-08

Scope

Notes
Percentage Distribution of Most Frequent Nationality of Inbound Visitors,Tourist Sites Visitors ,Average Expenditure of the Inbound Visitors
Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
leisure, tourism and sport [13.4] CESSDA Link
Keywords
Keyword Vocabulary URI
Visitor Concepts and Definitions glosary Link
Purpose of the Visit Concepts and Definitions glosary Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
West Bank Governerate

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Palestinian National Authority
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Palestinian National Authority PNA Funding of survey
European Union EU Funding of survey
Core Funding Group CFG Funding of survey
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC Funding of survey
Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
Name Affiliation
Tourism and Antiquities Police CFG
Association of Tour Guides in the West Bank CFG

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Target Population
The target population for this study was all guests in hotels in the West Bank, whether resident or non resident, in 2009.

Sampling Frame
Framework was created under the preview of visitor arrivals in 2008, and the frame is a list of arrivals by nationality, month, and the governorate. The preview window consists of the tourist sites in the north, central, and south of the West Bank, and Jerusalem, and regions where a police officer is at each site of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and/or a tour guide accompanied the visitors.

Sample Size
The sample size was estimated to be about 2500 visitors distributed among the West Bank sites and attractions.

Sample Survey Design
This sample survey is a stratified random sample of visitors in the Palestinian territory and units are the areas in the West Bank (including regions: north, central, and south, and Jerusalem). A different sample of visitors at each site was selected depending on the number of visitors during the previous year 2008

Distribution Of The Sample
The distributed sample of visitors to tourist sites frequented by visitors in a manner proportional to the number of visitors to sites during the previous year 2008
Response Rate
NO RESPONSE
Weighting
NO WEIGHITING

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2008-08-31 2009-07-01
Time periods
Start date End date
2008-08-31 2009-07-01
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
Data Collection
Data collection on visitors was through the questionnaires distributed to them by the fieldworkers, and in coordination with the tour guide and / or officer of tourism police located at the site, after knowledge of the appropriate language for visitors coming, where the translation of questionnaires for more than six languages. And cooperate both the policeman and the tour guide with a fieldworkers in the process of transfer of the idea and objective of the survey for the visitor in his own language, which helped a lot in the process of urging visitors to fill the questionnaires that are distributed to them
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS Palestinian National Authority

Data Appraisal

Estimates of Sampling Error
-

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, Population, Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009
V 1.0 (08-2011). 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
© All rights reserved. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2009. Inbound Visitors Survey, 2009

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-PSE-PCBS-IVS-2009-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
2011-08-08
DDI Document version
VI.0
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