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Establishment census 2017

West Bank and Gaza, 2017
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    2017_E

Legal Status (E28)

Data file: Est_Census 2017_E

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Valid: 142338
Invalid: 11584
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 12
Format: Numeric

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Literal question
Legal Status
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sole proprietorship 125501
81.5%
2 Particular partnership 3443
2.2%
3 General partnership company 3677
2.4%
4 limited partnership company 240
0.2%
5 Shareholding limited partnership 5138
3.3%
6 Public shareholding company 646
0.4%
7 Limited shares company 19
0%
8 Limited liability company 9
0%
9 Unlimited liability company 3
0%
10 Cooperative company 226
0.1%
11 Non-profit charitable society 3339
2.2%
12 Foreign company branch 97
0.1%
Sysmiss 11584
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
The legal status of the enterprise as registered in the relevant government ministry.
1. Sole Proprietorship: Established, which has a capital of one natural person and often run by himself, and this kind of facilities does not exist in the Jordanian law and Palestinian.
2. De-facto Company: Company is usually between two or three or establishments owner's without agreements, including contracts only custom and tradition do not have any legal personality.
3. General Partnership Company: It means the company that all of the partners personally jointly responsible of all debts of the company and all of its contracts and obligations.
4. Limited Partnership Company: Known by Jordanian law as the company that includes two types of partners. First a general partner or more, and are responsible personally and jointly and severally for the company's debts and obligations, and the second one or more partners with limited liability, and all of them official as its paid up capital in the company.
5. Shareholding Limited Partnership Company: composed of a number of people at least (2) not more than fifty and be the responsibility of each partner for its debts and obligations to the extent of their share in the capital.
6. Public Shareholding Company: The company that its capital consists of tradable shares and offer for public subscription and be the responsibility of shareholders is limited by the contribution of each of them with a capital company.
7. Cooperative Company: It's an associations registered in the Ministry of Labour as associations for specific purposes and can be targeted profit or non-profit.
8. Association or Charities: The institutions that provide services to the community can be different or similar to the services provided by the facilities that aim to profit but at no charge or for a nominal fee or a relative of the cost. For example, charities, and associations established to provide health and social services, educational and sports clubs, trade unions, political parties, unions, students and workers.
9. Foreign Company Branch: A subsidiary of a foreign company such as branches for insurance companies, banks or airlines.
Universe
It includes all operating establishments which are the ownership status is from 1-9 and whose economic organization is not a auxiliary activity unit
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