{"doc_desc":{"title":"The Industrial Survey 2011","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-IND-2011-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data"}],"prod_date":"2013-01-15","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (Jan \/ 2013)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-IND-2011-V1.0","title":"The Industrial Survey 2011","alt_title":"IND","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u062d\u0635\u0627\u0621\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0646\u0627\u0639\u0629 2011"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial"},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial"},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","affiliation":"CFG","email":"","role":"financial"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"All Rights Reserved\u00a9 October 2012, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","funding_agencies":[{"name":"The Palestinian National Authority","abbreviation":"(PNA)","role":"financial"},{"name":"The Representative Office of Norway","abbreviation":"NOR","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":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]","series_info":"The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics  issued the fifteenth volume of the economic surveys for the Palestinian Territory, which presents the findings of the surveys conducted for 2011 as reference year.  These surveys cover most of economic activities operating in the Palestinian Territory since 1994."},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 dataset for public distribution","version_date":"2012-11-20"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Industry","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":"The objective of the survey was to obtain data on:\nNumber of enterprises and persons engaged in the economic survey series by activity. \nValue of output, intermediate consumption and stocks.\nValue added components.\nPayments and transfers.\nAssets and capital formation.\nContribution of the surveyed activities to the GDP and other national accounts variables.","time_periods":[{"start":"2011-01-01","end":"2011-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2012-04-01","end":"2012-06-15","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"West Bank and Gaza Strip","analysis_unit":"Enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU)","universe":"Industrial Enterprises (private sector)","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"1.The persons engaged in enterprise and compensation of these employees.\n2.Value of output from the main activity and secondary activity. \n3.Production inputs of goods and services.\n4.Payments and transfers.\n5.Taxes on production.\n6.Assets and capital formation."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority"}],"sampling_procedure":"The sample of the economic surveys series is a single-stage stratified random-systematic sample in which the enterprise constitutes the primary sampling unit (PSU). Three levels of strata were used to draw up an efficient representative sample (i.e., economic activity, size of workforce and geographical location). \n\nThis methodology was used to draw a sample of large and middle enterprises based on the framework of large and middle enterprises alone; for small enterprises data were estimated based on a time series of the results of economic surveys.\n  The sample size for the Palestinian Territory amounted to (1604) enterprises out of the (3091), the framework of large and middle enterprises alone.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"All of the economic surveys series used the same questionnaire, with a few different characteristics for each survey. The design of the 2011 questionnaire takes into account the major economic variables pertaining to the sector examined and the needs to be met to compile the National Accounts for Palestine.","coll_situation":"Workers Selection and Training:\nThe interviewers in the fieldwork are selected from the experienced ones in the statistical work and they are also trained theoretically and practically.\n\n Fieldwork operations:  \nThey are initiated after the recruitment and training  of qualified interviewers.  The PCBS's Fieldwork Directorate administers fieldwork activities including interviewing activities.\n\n\nData Collecting Method:\nData are gathered by using an interview with the enterprise owner or general manager by applying the survey questionnaire.","act_min":"Fieldwork\n\u00b7 Selection of specialized fieldwork team of economic back ground, the team was trained theoretically and practically on the survey questionnaire.\n\u00b7 The main fieldwork team was selected according to the training course.\n\u00b7 Field work visits by both fieldwork and project management staff for monitoring and following up data collection process and progress of work, An average of two visits for each governorate, a bout 90% of completed questionnaires was reviewed and corrected if needed, comments and notes were directed to the team accordingly.\n\u00b7 Different levels of supervision and monitoring toke place a according to the following division:\no Fieldworkers\no Fieldworkers supervisors \no Fieldwork coordinator. (Each of them has responsibilities in monitoring )  \n\u00b7 Project management receive a daily progress report about completeness and response.\n\u00b7 Conducting a refreshment training course during the stage of data collection for emphasizing the main issues of  training and answering questions of fieldworkers about issues faced them in the field.\n\u00b7 We made another visit to some institutions which were visited by the researchers to confirm the accuracy of the data that have been given to researchers and that called the interview, these institutions has been selected randomly by withdrawing a random sample of 10% of the original sample of the survey, and then the data were compared with data from series surveys.","weight":"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 one another . The weights are adjusted to compensate for nonresponse Enterprises","cleaning_operations":"For  insuring quality and consistency of data a set of measures were taken into account for strengthening accuracy of data as follows:\n\u00b7Preparing data entry program before data collection for checking readiness of the program for data entry.\n\u00b7A set of validation rules were applied on the program for  checking consistency of data.\n\u00b7Efficiency of the program was checked through pre-testing in entering few questionnaires, including incorrect information for checking its efficiency, in capturing these information.\n\u00b7Well trained data keyers were selected and trained for the main data entry.\n\u00b7Weekly or biweekly data files were received by project management for checking accuracy and consistency, notes of correction are provided for data entry management for correction.","method_notes":"After the editor finishes editing the questionnaire, a coding are used according to (ISIC - 4), then the questionnaire is transferred to data entry."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"Response rate: 82.5%.","sampling_error_estimates":"Statistical Errors:\nThe findings of the survey are affected by statistical errors due to using sampling in conducting the survey for the units of the target population, which increases the chances of having variances from the actual values we expect to obtain from the data had we conducted the survey using comprehensive enumeration.. The variance of the key goods in the survey was computed and dissemination was carried out on the level of Palestinian Territory for reasons related to sample design and computation of the variance of the different indicators.\n\n\nNon-Statistical Errors\nThese types of errors could appear on one or all the survey stages that include data collection and data entry: Response errors: these types of errors are related to, responders, fieldworkers, and data entry personnel's. And to avoid mistakes and reduce the impact has been a series of actions that would enhance the accuracy of the data through a process of data collection from the field and the data processing."}},"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 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. \n2. 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.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics2013, Economic Surveys Series - 2011. Version1.0(11-2012)   Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"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.\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 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.","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}}}