{"doc_desc":{"title":"Communication & Information Survey  2010","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-COIS-2010-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority","role":"Data  collecting, processing and dissiminations"}],"prod_date":"2012-05-28","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (May \/ 2012)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-COIS-2010-V1.0","title":"Communication & Information Survey 2010","alt_title":"COIS","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0625\u062d\u0635\u0627\u0621\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062a\u0635\u0627\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0644\u0648\u0645\u0627\u062a 2010"},"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 Representative Office of Norway","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":{"copyright":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics \u060c Communication & Information Survey ,2010 .","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":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]","series_info":"First time but it was carried with Economic Surveys Series(number (16 th)"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0 (File to publication on internet for public use)","version_date":"2012-05-28"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Communication  Survey","vocab":" Statistical Definitions and Glossary  ","uri":"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\/Downloads\/book1793.pdf"}],"topics":[{"topic":"economic conditions and indicators [1.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"A comprehensive and detailed statistical database of any economic activity is a prerequisite for planning and policy making and this applies to economic activities that play a major role in most modern world economies.\n\nThe Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is pleased to issue the sixteenth volume of economic surveys for the Palestinian Territory, including statistical tables of findings. This edition presents the findings of the surveys conducted for 2010 as the reference year and covers most of the economic activities operating in the Palestinian Territory since 1994. \n\nEconomic surveys of various fields constitute the basic foundations for the compilation of National Accounts for Palestine. It is hoped that they will also fulfill the various needs and expectations of users in both the public and private sectors.","time_periods":[{"start":"2010-01-01","end":"2010-12-31","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2011-03-15","end":"2011-05-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"West Bank and Gaza Strip","analysis_unit":"Enterprises","universe":"Communication and Information survey covers all establishments of the following main activities: \n1.\tPublishing activities (58).\n2.\tMotion picture video and television programme production sound recording and music publishing activities (59).           \n3.\tProgramming and broadcasting activities (60).\n4.\tTelecommunications (61).\n5.\tComputer programming consultancy and related activities (62).\n6.\tInformation service activities (63).","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 number of Enterprise in Communication and Information survey for the base year 2010, amounted to (467),  which form the whole frame in the West bank  and  Gaza Strip.","sampling_deviation":"non","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"They are one forms of the Communication and Information survey questionnaire 2010 of the Palestinian Territory, it's related to household and branches, and  the non-financial companies sector.  The questionnaire contains of the following main variables:\n.The persons engaged in enterprise and compensation of these employees.1\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","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\nFieldwork operations:  \nThey are initiated after the recruitment and training of qualified interviewers.  The PCBS's Fieldwork Directorate administers fieldwork activities including interviewing activities.","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 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.\nThe weight were adjusts due to the non-response and over-coverage.","cleaning_operations":"To ensure the quality and consistency of data, a set of measures was introduced as follows:\n\u00b7\tCreation of a data entry program prior to the collection of data to ensure this would be ready.\n\u00b7\tA set of validation rules were applied to the program to check the consistency of data.\n\u00b7\tThe efficiency of the program was pre-tested by entering a few questionnaires, including incorrect information, and checking its efficiency in capturing the incorrect information.\n\u00b7\tWell-trained data entry personnel were selected and trained for main data entry.\n\u00b7\tWeekly data files were received by project management to be checked for accuracy and consistency: correction notes were provided to data entry management for implementation."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"Response rate 80.1%","sampling_error_estimates":"Statistical Errors:\nThe findings of the survey are not affected by statistical errors due to using comprehensive counting.\n\nNon-Statistical Errors\nThese types of errors could appear on one or all the survey stages that include data collection and data entry:\nResponse 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 Statistics, Communication & Information Survey ,2010. V1.0(5-2012).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. \nThe 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":"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."}}}}