{"doc_desc":{"title":"Transport Survey Outside Establishments Sector 2009","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-TSOES-2009-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":" PCBS","affiliation":"   Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data "}],"prod_date":"2012-05-30","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (May \/ 2012)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-TSOES-2009-V1.0","title":"Transport Survey Outside Establishments Sector 2009","alt_title":"TSOES","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0642\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0637\u0627\u0639 \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0634\u0622\u062a 2009"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority  "}],"oth_id":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial  "},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial  "}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority  ","role":"Producers  "}],"copyright":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 2010, Transport Survey Outside Establishments Sector 2009","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"(PNA)  ","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"NOR","role":"financial  "},{"name":"The Representative Office of Netherlands","abbreviation":"NDL","role":"financial  "},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbreviation":"(SDC)","role":"financial  "}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of user services","affiliation":" Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics  ","email":" diwan@pcbs.gov.ps   ","uri":" http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Informal Sector Survey [hh\/iss]","series_info":"This survey implemented for fourteenth  volume of the Transport Survey Outside Establishments Sector 2009for the Palestinian Territory. This report presents findings of the survey for the year 2009 for the Palestinian Territory."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0  :  Basic raw data, obtained from data entry (before editing).","version_date":"2012-05-30"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Informal Transport","vocab":"Glossary of Statistical Terms","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1721.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"economic conditions and indicators [1.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":" http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common  "}],"abstract":"There is increasing concern in national statistical offices about coverage of informal economic activities. PCBS has given priority to transport activities, due to their importance to the Palestinian economy. The transport Survey Outside Establishments Sector 2009complements the 2009 formal transport sector survey. The PCBS began by exerting tremendous effort to establish a sampling frame.  All land transport stops in major Palestinian cities were defined and data about the number and characteristics of operating vehicles were collected in order to stratify the population into homogenous stratum.\n\nThe survey covers activities of the informal sector according to (ISIC-3) for both:\nNon-scheduled passenger land transport (6022)\nFreight transport by road (6023)\n\n\nObjectives:\nObjectives of this survey are the following. \n1. Number of transport vehicles and persons engaged by activity.\n2. Value of output and intermediate consumption\n3. Value added components.\n4. Fixed assets.\n5. Other selected variables.","time_periods":[{"start":"2009-01-01","end":"2009-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2010-02-15","end":"2010-02-28","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"Palestinian Territory","analysis_unit":"vehicles","universe":"The survey covers activities of the informal sector according to (ISIC-3) for both:\nNon-scheduled passenger land transport (6022)\nFreight transport by road (6023)\n\n\nVehicles:divided according to its activity to:\n\u00b7Taxi passengers.\n\u00b7Private passengers.\n\u00b7Freight transport by road.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The objectives of this survey are as follows:\n1. Number of transport vehicles and Employed Persons by activity.\n2. Value of output and intermediate consumption.\n3. Value added components.\n4. Fixed assets and other selected variables."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":" PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority  "}],"sampling_procedure":"Sample Frame: \nIt is a list of barking that, collected in the frame survey and included Taxi barking, Privet barking, Freight Transport by Road barking, for the vehicles model (2000 below, and 2001 up).  Where the frame amounted to (10,791) vehicles. \n\nSample Design:\nThe design used is a random cluster stratified sample: \nQuota sample proportional to the size of the station. The sample size amounted to (1,878) vehicles of the total (10,791) vehicles that comprise the survey frame.\n\nSample Clusters:\nBarking divided to clusters on the following levels:\n1. Transport kind: Vehicles divided according to its activity to:\n\u00b7    Taxi passengers.\n\u00b7    Privet passengers.\n\u00b7    Freight transport by road.\n2. Vehicles model: Vehicles divided according to its model to:\n\u00b7    Model 2000 below.\n\u00b7    Model 2001 up","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"The questionnaire of the transport survey- outside 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:\n\u00b7  Questions about vehicle.\n\u00b7  Persons engaged and their compensations.\n\u00b7  Value of output from main activity.\n\u00b7  Intermediate consumption.\n\u00b7  Taxes on production.\n\u00b7  Fixed assets.","coll_situation":"Data Collection Method\nFieldworkers collect data through personal interviews with the owners or the managers of the selected economic establishments.\n\nFieldwork editing\nFieldworkers and supervisors make an initial formally and technically editing depends on prepared editing rules.\n\nOffice Editing\nThe 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. \n\nCoding\nAfter finish editing process the completed questionnaires subject to coding process to be prepared to the data entry process.","act_min":"Field visits were conducted by survey's management team to ensure data collection was carried out according to standards","weight":"The sampling weight of the vehicle 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 vehicles' selection from another one.","cleaning_operations":"Data Entry Training:\nThe data entry training begins before the data entry process, the training is of tow parts theoretically and practically.\n\nData Entry Administrative:\nThe Information System Directorate administrates the whole process with all its requirements.  The data entry team is of data entry employees and a supervisor.\n\nEditing of Data Entry:\nThere are tow steps:\nFirst: Throughout the data entry itself since the program itself is available to correct mistakes in data entry.\nSecond: Listing of questionnaires, which are, still have mistakes in data entry.\n\nData Tabulation:\nPrimary tables are exerted after the process of data entry and editing.  A process of editing data is being taken to have at the end a final correct data tables."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"The Response ratio is (94.7%)","sampling_error_estimates":"Statistical Errors\nData of this survey affected by statistical errors due to use the sample, Therefore, the emergence of certain differences from the real values expect obtained through censuses.  It had been calculated variation of the most important indicators exists and the facility with the report.  And the dissemination levels of the data were particularized at the regional level in the Palestinian Territories.\n\nNon-Statistical Errors\nNon-statistical errors are probable in all stages of the project, during data collection or processing. This is referred to as non-response errors, response errors, interview in   errors, and data entry errors.   To avoid errors and reduce their effects, great efforts were made to train the fieldworkers intensively.  They were trained in how to carry out the interview, what to discuss and what to avoid."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"General Statistics Law No. (5) for Year 2000\n \nArticle (17)\n1. All individual information and data submitted to the Bureau for statistical purposes shall be treated as \nconfidential and shall not be divulged, in whole or in part, to any individual or to a public or private body, or used \nfor any purpose other than for preparing statistical tables. \n2. The Bureau shall endeavor to issue official statistical publications in aggregate tables, which do not disclose \nindividual data, in conformity with the confidentiality of statistical data.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"   Palestinian National Authority","email":" diwan@pcbs.gov.ps   ","uri":" http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"cit_req":"\u00a9June, 2010 All rights reserved.\nSuggested Citation:\nPalestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 2010, Transport Survey Outside Establishments Sector 2009,. Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"1. pledges  the utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof shall be limited to the purposes agreed upon including \nnot granting any third parties any access to these data. Restrictions applies to any data duplication or \ntransformed setting for purposes other than meeting the requirements of the statistical programs used in data \nanalysis.\n \n2. Utilization of \"data\" or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally .\n \n3. Pledges not to alter the value of any observation in the original \"data\"; nevertheless, this does not apply on \nsubjecting data to any processes or procedures aiming to derive new variables. The first party does not bear \nany professional, administrative or financial responsibility for any losses incurred as a result of changes in the \nvariables values.","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."}}}}