Expenditure and Consumption Survey, 1998
West Bank and Gaza, 1998
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Identification
Survey ID Number
WBG_1998_PECS_v01_M
Title
Expenditure and Consumption Survey, 1998
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| West Bank and Gaza | WBG |
Study type
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Series Information
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) conducted a household expenditure and consumption survey for the first time between 1/10/1995 and 30/9/1996.
PCBS then conducted two more surveys on the following dates:
- A second survey between 1/1/1997 and 31/1/1997.
- And a third survey between 1/1/1998 and 31/1/1998.
The findings of these surveys constituted a solid database and enabled PCBS to publish detailed statistics regarding expenditure and consumption.
PCBS then conducted two more surveys on the following dates:
- A second survey between 1/1/1997 and 31/1/1997.
- And a third survey between 1/1/1998 and 31/1/1998.
The findings of these surveys constituted a solid database and enabled PCBS to publish detailed statistics regarding expenditure and consumption.
Abstract
The basic goal of this survey is to provide the necessary database for formulating national policies at various levels. It represents the contribution of the household sector to the Gross National Product (GNP). Household Surveys help as well in determining the incidence of poverty, and providing weighted data which reflects the relative importance of the consumption items to be employed in determining the benchmark for rates and prices of items and services.
Generally, the Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey is a fundamental cornerstone in the process of studying the nutritional status in the Palestinian territory.
The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office was cleaned and harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, in the context of a major research project to develop and expand knowledge on equity and inequality in the Arab region.
The main focus of the project is to measure the magnitude and direction of change in inequality and to understand the complex contributing social, political and economic forces influencing its levels. However, the measurement and analysis of the magnitude and direction of change in this inequality cannot be consistently carried out without harmonized and comparable micro-level data on income and expenditures.
Therefore, one important component of this research project is securing and harmonizing household surveys from as many countries in the region as possible, adhering to international statistics on household living standards distribution. Once the dataset has been compiled, the Economic Research Forum makes it available, subject to confidentiality agreements, to all researchers and institutions concerned with data collection and issues of inequality.
Data is a public good, in the interest of the region, and it is consistent with the Economic Research Forum's mandate to make micro data available, aiding regional research on this important topic.
Generally, the Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey is a fundamental cornerstone in the process of studying the nutritional status in the Palestinian territory.
The raw survey data provided by the Statistical Office was cleaned and harmonized by the Economic Research Forum, in the context of a major research project to develop and expand knowledge on equity and inequality in the Arab region.
The main focus of the project is to measure the magnitude and direction of change in inequality and to understand the complex contributing social, political and economic forces influencing its levels. However, the measurement and analysis of the magnitude and direction of change in this inequality cannot be consistently carried out without harmonized and comparable micro-level data on income and expenditures.
Therefore, one important component of this research project is securing and harmonizing household surveys from as many countries in the region as possible, adhering to international statistics on household living standards distribution. Once the dataset has been compiled, the Economic Research Forum makes it available, subject to confidentiality agreements, to all researchers and institutions concerned with data collection and issues of inequality.
Data is a public good, in the interest of the region, and it is consistent with the Economic Research Forum's mandate to make micro data available, aiding regional research on this important topic.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
1- Household/families.
2- Individuals.
2- Individuals.
Version
Version Description
V1.0: A cleaned and a harmonized version of the survey dataset, produced by the Economic Research Forum for dissemination.
Version Date
2012-11
Version Notes
All documentation available for the original survey, whether provided by the Statistical Office or generated by the Economic Research Forum, has been published. However, as far as the datasets are concerned, the Economic Research Forum produces and releases only the harmonized versions in both SPSS and STATA formats.
Scope
Notes
Household: Includes geographic, social, and economic characteristics of households, namely, household composition, dwelling characteristics, ownership of assets indicators, heads' and spouses' characteristics, annual household expenditure and income.
Individual: Includes demographic, education, labor and health characteristics, as well as annual income for household members identified as earners.
Fathers' and mothers' characteristics are generated for household members if possible.
Individual: Includes demographic, education, labor and health characteristics, as well as annual income for household members identified as earners.
Fathers' and mothers' characteristics are generated for household members if possible.
Topics
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Poverty | ERF |
| Expenditure | ERF |
| Income | ERF |
| Infrastructure | ERF |
| Education | ERF |
| Labor | ERF |
| Health | ERF |
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
The target population in the sample survey comprises all private household living in the West Bank and Gaza Srip, excluding nomads and students.
Universe
The survey covered a national sample of households and all permanently residing individuals in surveyed households.
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian National Authority |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
Sample and Frame:
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The target population in the survey sample comprises all households living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, excluding nomads and students.
The sample design is a stratified two-stage design for households selected to be interviewed.
At the first stage a sample of cells (PSUs) was selected from PCBS master sample frame.
At the second stage, a sample of households was selected after a complete household listing of the sampled cells.
Sample design:
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Four levels of stratification have been made:
1. Stratification by District.
2. Stratification by place of residence, which comprises:
(a) Municipalities (b) Villages (C) refugees camps
3. Stratification by locality size
4. Stratification by cell identification in that order
Target cluster size:
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The target cluster size or "sample-take" is the average number of households to be selected per PSU. In this survey, the sample take is around 10 households.
Sample size:
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The total sample size collected, after excluding non-response and related losses, is 2851 households.
Detailed information/formulas on the sampling design are available in the user manual.
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The target population in the survey sample comprises all households living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, excluding nomads and students.
The sample design is a stratified two-stage design for households selected to be interviewed.
At the first stage a sample of cells (PSUs) was selected from PCBS master sample frame.
At the second stage, a sample of households was selected after a complete household listing of the sampled cells.
Sample design:
=========
Four levels of stratification have been made:
1. Stratification by District.
2. Stratification by place of residence, which comprises:
(a) Municipalities (b) Villages (C) refugees camps
3. Stratification by locality size
4. Stratification by cell identification in that order
Target cluster size:
============
The target cluster size or "sample-take" is the average number of households to be selected per PSU. In this survey, the sample take is around 10 households.
Sample size:
========
The total sample size collected, after excluding non-response and related losses, is 2851 households.
Detailed information/formulas on the sampling design are available in the user manual.
Deviations from the Sample Design
The standard errors for the main survey estimates were calculated to give the user an idea of their reliability or precision. Whereas, the variance was calculated using the method of ultimate clusters within any domain of estimation.
Detailed information on the sampling design deviation and calculation of the variance is available in the user manual.
Detailed information on the sampling design deviation and calculation of the variance is available in the user manual.
Weighting
Self-Weighting Design
Detailed weight formulas are available in the user manual attached to external resources.
Detailed weight formulas are available in the user manual attached to external resources.
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 1998-01 | 1998-12 | Annual |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | PCBS | Palestinian National Authority |
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
The PECS questionnaire consists of two main sections:
First section: Certain articles / provisions of the form filled at the beginning of the month,and the remainder filled out at the end of the month. The questionnaire includes the following provisions:
Cover sheet: It contains detailed and particulars of the family, date of visit, particular of the field/office work team, number/sex of the family members.
Statement of the family members: Contains social, economic and demographic particulars of the selected family.
Statement of the long-lasting commodities and income generation activities: Includes a number of basic and indispensable items (i.e, Livestock, or agricultural lands).
Housing Characteristics: Includes information and data pertaining to the housing conditions, including type of shelter, number of rooms, ownership, rent, water, electricity supply, connection to the sewer system, source of cooking and heating fuel, and remoteness/proximity of the house to education and health facilities.
Monthly and Annual Income: Data pertaining to the income of the family is collected from different sources at the end of the registration / recording period.
Second section: The second section of the questionnaire includes a list of 54 consumption and expenditure groups itemized and serially numbered according to its importance to the family. Each of these groups contains important commodities. The number of commodities items in each for all groups stood at 707 commodities and services items. Groups 1-21 include food, drink, and cigarettes. Group 22 includes homemade commodities. Groups 23-45 include all items except for food, drink and cigarettes. Groups 50-54 include all of the long-lasting commodities. Data on each of these groups was collected over different intervals of time so as to reflect expenditure over a period of one full year.
First section: Certain articles / provisions of the form filled at the beginning of the month,and the remainder filled out at the end of the month. The questionnaire includes the following provisions:
Cover sheet: It contains detailed and particulars of the family, date of visit, particular of the field/office work team, number/sex of the family members.
Statement of the family members: Contains social, economic and demographic particulars of the selected family.
Statement of the long-lasting commodities and income generation activities: Includes a number of basic and indispensable items (i.e, Livestock, or agricultural lands).
Housing Characteristics: Includes information and data pertaining to the housing conditions, including type of shelter, number of rooms, ownership, rent, water, electricity supply, connection to the sewer system, source of cooking and heating fuel, and remoteness/proximity of the house to education and health facilities.
Monthly and Annual Income: Data pertaining to the income of the family is collected from different sources at the end of the registration / recording period.
Second section: The second section of the questionnaire includes a list of 54 consumption and expenditure groups itemized and serially numbered according to its importance to the family. Each of these groups contains important commodities. The number of commodities items in each for all groups stood at 707 commodities and services items. Groups 1-21 include food, drink, and cigarettes. Group 22 includes homemade commodities. Groups 23-45 include all items except for food, drink and cigarettes. Groups 50-54 include all of the long-lasting commodities. Data on each of these groups was collected over different intervals of time so as to reflect expenditure over a period of one full year.
Data Processing
Data Editing
Raw Data
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Harmonized Data
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- The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) is used to clean and harmonize the datasets.
- The harmonization process starts with cleaning all raw data files received from the Statistical Office.
- Cleaned data files are then all merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization.
- A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate/compute/recode/rename/format/label harmonized variables.
- A post-harmonization cleaning process is run on the data.
- Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and converted to STATA format.
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Harmonized Data
============
- The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) is used to clean and harmonize the datasets.
- The harmonization process starts with cleaning all raw data files received from the Statistical Office.
- Cleaned data files are then all merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization.
- A country-specific program is generated for each dataset to generate/compute/recode/rename/format/label harmonized variables.
- A post-harmonization cleaning process is run on the data.
- Harmonized data is saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and converted to STATA format.
Access policy
Access authority
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Research Forum | Economic Research Forum (ERF) | erfdataportal@erf.org.eg | www.erf.org.eg |
| Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | Palestinian National Authority | diwan@pcbs.gov.ps | www.pcbs.gov.ps |
Contacts
| Name | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Economic Research Forum (ERF) - 21 Al-Sad Al-Aaly St., Dokki, Giza, Egypt | erfdataportal@erf.org.eg | www.erf.org.eg |
Confidentiality
To access the micro-data, researchers are required to register on the ERF website and comply with the data access agreement.
The data will be used only for scholarly, research, or educational purposes. Users are prohibited from using data acquired from the Economic Research Forum in the pursuit of any commercial or private ventures.
Access conditions
Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions.
Citation requirements
The users should cite the Economic Research Forum and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics as follows:
"Economic Research Forum and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestinian Consumption and Expenditure Survey 1998 (PECS 1998), Version 1.0 of the Licensed data files (March 2013), provided by the Economic Research Forum. http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog"
"Economic Research Forum and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestinian Consumption and Expenditure Survey 1998 (PECS 1998), Version 1.0 of the Licensed data files (March 2013), provided by the Economic Research Forum. http://www.erfdataportal.com/index.php/catalog"
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
The Economic Research Forum and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics have granted the researcher access to relevant data following exhaustive efforts to protect the confidentiality of individual data. The researcher is solely responsible for any analysis or conclusions drawn from available data.
Copyright
(c) 2012, Economic Research Forum | (c) 1998, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Metadata production
DDI Document ID
DDI_WBG_1998_PECS_v01_M
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Economic Research Forum | ERF | Cleaning and Harmonizing raw data received from the Statistical Office |
Date of Metadata Production
2012-11
DDI Document version
Version 1.0
DDI Number, Study ID and Country fields edited by World Bank Data Group (May 2013)
DDI Number, Study ID and Country fields edited by World Bank Data Group (May 2013)