{"doc_desc":{"title":"Gaza Welfare Panel Survey 2025 (Round 1)","idno":"DDI-PSE-PCBS-GWPS-R1-2024-V1.0","producers":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"State of Palestine","role":"Collection, processing and dissemination data"}],"prod_date":"2025-08-12","version_statement":{"version":"V1.0"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PSE-PCBS-GWPS-2025-V1.0","title":"Gaza Welfare Panel Survey 2025 (Round 1)","alt_title":"GWPS2025_R1","translated_title":"\u0645\u0633\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0641\u0627\u0647 \u0641\u064a \u063a\u0632\u0629 (GWPS) \u2014 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u0649 2025"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"State of Palestine"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"World Bank","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Funding"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(c)  All Rights Reserved.  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, (Q4 2024).","prod_date":"2025-08-12","funding_agencies":[{"name":"World Bank","abbreviation":"WB","role":"Funding"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Division of user services","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","email":"Dus@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"},{"name":"Mail office","affiliation":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","email":"Diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"depositor":[{"name":"","abbreviation":"","affiliation":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Socio-Economic\/Monitoring Survey [hh\/sems]"},"version_statement":{"version":"V1.0: (Public use file)","version_date":"2025-08-10","version_notes":"PCBS did not produce analytical outputs from Round 1 dataset, but provides micro-data, survey weights, questionnaires, and metadata for authorized independent analysis."},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Food Security","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Displacement","vocab":"","uri":""}],"topics":[{"topic":"SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS [15]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"Main objective is to rapidly document Israeli aggression\/displacement dynamics, access to medical services, assistance coverage, and food insecurity & coping among Gaza households.","time_periods":[{"start":"2024-10-01","end":"2024-12-30","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2024-10-01","end":"2024-12-31","cycle":"Wave 1"}],"nation":[{"name":"Palestine","abbreviation":"PSE"}],"geog_coverage":"Gaza Strip","analysis_unit":"Household","universe":"All Palestinian households living in Gaza Strip","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"PCBS","affiliation":"Palestinian National Authority "}],"sampling_procedure":"Sampling foundation: PECS-2023 (original methodology)\nDesign: Two-stage stratified cluster sample drawn from Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017 enumeration areas (EAs).\nStratification: Governorate \u00d7 locality type. \n\u00b7\tStage 1 (PSU): Probability selection of EAs within strata.\n\u00b7\tStage 2 (SSU): Systematic selection of households within selected EAs.\nPECS contact frame: During PECS-2023 fieldwork, responding households provided phone numbers and consent to re-contact; these constitute the panel frame for GWPS.\n\nGWPS Round 1 Gaza sample (re-contact)\nEligible frame: 1,102 Gaza households from PECS-2023 with valid contact numbers.\nCompleted interviews: 861 households.\nNon-interviews: 241 households not reachable under Q4-2024 conflict conditions (communications outages, displacement, inaccessibility).\nLabeling: Although collected in Q4-2024, Round 1 is labeled \u201cGWPS 2025 (R1)\u201d to align with the release year.","coll_mode":["Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]"],"research_instrument":"Purpose: Measure the social and economic conditions of Palestinian households in Gaza during\/after the October 2023 aggression.\nSection 1 - Identification: Household serial number, governorate and locality codes, and contact info for the head of household.\nSection 2 - Interview Procedure & Call Log (C1-C8): Records each call attempt, whether the call was answered, consent to interview, willingness to be called back later, and scheduling details.\nSection 3 - Household Roster & Health (D1-D7, D15; D8-D14):\n\u00b7\tUpdates who still lives in the household; reasons for exit; sex, age, relationship to head; marital status (14+).\n\u00b7\tHealth items: presence of a professionally diagnosed chronic condition (D8), whether it worsened due to the war (D8-1), serious illness caused by the war (D8A), and functional difficulties due to the war (vision, hearing, mobility, hand\/fingers, memory\/concentration, communication, self-care: D9-D14).\nSection 4 - War & Displacement (H1-H11): Pre-war and current locality; dwelling type before\/now; home damage; bombing of current area; number of household displacements; whether non-members joined and how many.\nSection 5 - Medical Services (HS1-HS5): Serious injuries; need for medical care; main reason for last service; whether care was obtained; up to three main barriers to access.\nSection 6 - Social Protection (C1-C4): Pre-war participation in assistance programs and whether they stopped; new\/additional aid since October 2023; assistance received; perceived importance of assistance.\nSection 7 - Food Security & Coping (FS1-FS2): Frequency of having no food in the last four weeks; household's main coping strategy.\nInterview Close (QC3-QC8): Interview result; consent to re-contact; alternate phone; if in a shelter, whether another household shares the room\/tent and neighbor contact details.\nNotes: Space for interviewer notes in each section.","weight":"Weights (Round 1 - Q4 2024)\nThe dataset includes one weight, hh_weight, prepared by PCBS to make the survey results represent all Gaza households.\nThe weight adjusts for:\n\u00b7\tThe original PECS-2023 sample design\n\u00b7\tHouseholds we couldn't reach because of the Israeli aggression","cleaning_operations":"Not Applicable"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"Eligible frame: 1,102 Gaza households from PECS-2023 with valid contact numbers.\nCompleted interviews: 861 households.\nNon-interviews: 241 households not reachable under Q4-2024 conflict conditions (communications outages, displacement, inaccessibility).","sampling_error_estimates":"-"}},"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, \n     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":"State of Palestine","email":"diwan@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"},{"name":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"State of Palestine","email":"Dus@pcbs.gov.ps","uri":"www.pcbs.gov.ps"}],"cit_req":"Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Gaza Welfare Panel Survey (GWPS) - Round 1, 2025 (October - December 2024). V1.0(08-2025). Ramallah - Palestine.","conditions":"1.     Pledges  the utilization of \u201cdata\u201d 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\n        or transformed setting for purposes other than meeting the requirements of the statistical programs used in data analysis.\n\n2.     Utilization of \u201cdata\u201d or any copies thereof is limited to personal computers normally .\n\n3.     Pledges not to alter the value of any observation in the original \u201cdata\u201d; nevertheless, this does not apply on subjecting data to any processes or procedures aiming to derive new variables. The first party does\n         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."}}}}