Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices in Data Dissemination Public Use Data files (PUF) Ola Awad, Acting President March, 2010

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) PCBS’ dissemination strategy The PUF (digital files) The Proactive Dissemination The Social Responsibility The Core User Producer Dialogue

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) PCBS’ dissemination Strategy As part of PCBS dissemination strategy, the focus is on empowering users through: 1.Macro data for public use (PUF) 2.Micro data for special use 3.Statistical library Empower users

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) PCBS’ dissemination Strategy 1.Census micro data is available for public use for everyone with detailed information on the contents posted on PCBS’ web site 2.Micro data usage is regulated by special agreement and a license: Site, personal, and group license 3.All local universities have free copies of PCBS’ digital data files including the census

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) What is PUF: 1.Data in digital formats based on surveys and censuses in as part of user empowerment 2.Data is treated to ensure the preservation of data confidentiality 3.Data is documented in user friendly manner along with the corresponding metadata to enable effective utilization of data by users 4.Use of data is governed by agreement and license between the user and the PCBS

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) Why to PUF: 1.Break the rigid relation between surveys and type of output from 1-1 relation to 1-many: One surveys gives variety of outputs 2.Empower users mainly researchers, academic institutions, post graduate students 3.Data Feeder for on-line statistical databases as a By Product Output (PUF as input to statistical databases) 4.Reduce the burden off PCBS – Reduce data requests for detailed and customized data

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) The PUF System InputOutput Process Survey Data Census Data Methodologies Treatment of data according to predefined standards Public Use Data File (ASCII; SPSS) Documentation (User Manual)

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) The beginning of the PUF experience……. 1.Census 1997 as learning experience for the whole organization 2.Final results disseminated in nine months from census enumeration 3.Census was the first experiment in preparing microdata. Since then, all of PCBS surveys are disseminated in digital formats

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) Output of Census 1997 PLUS 20% sample as PUF

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) Census 1997 – The characteristics of the PUF The micro data file was a sample with the following characteristics: The sampling frame consists of a list of all households that have been counted during the population, housing and establishment census These households cover all households living, during the census, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip except those living in the annexed part of Jerusalem. Regarding sample design, a systematic random sample of 20% of the households is selected, then all household members of the selected households are selected. Regarding sampling weights, they are calculated and added to the data file, and they should be used when calculating estimates from the data file.

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) The PUF of Census 1997 – Selected International Publications 1.Taraki L (editor). Living Palestine. Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation. Syracuse University Press, New York Hill, AG, CJ Clark, IM Lubbad and C Bruderlein (2006) Hope and despair over health in Gaza. British Medical Journal 333 (21): Lubbad, I, CJ Clark and AG Hill (2006) Population Projections for Socio- economic Development in the Gaza Strip, Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. 4.Hill, AG. Demographic and health prospects in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A Congressional Briefing on Changing Demographics of the Middle East: How Policies and Programs Affect Stability in the Region sponsored by the Office of Representative Danny Davis (D-IL), the Office of Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ), The Office of Representative Mark Kirk (R-IL), Rayburn Building,

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) The PUF of Census 2007 – The approach First step: surveying data users who used PUF 1997 about their views and feedback to incorporate their needs into the PUF of Census 2007 Some of the comments received by users…………. 1.Our demand is for digital files which contain all of the data for particular locales, especially cities. This is because we have noted varied urbanities emerging in the OPT, ranging from Ramallah to Hebron and Gaza, which are important to study in detail in order to assess what is currently taking place now, and to plan for the future 2.Census micro data was like a dream come true for us as researchers 3.To have census digital data files posted on our intranet at the university for utilization by our graduate students is something that we are very proud of.

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) The PUF of Census 2007 – The approach Second step: Technical committee to prepare the PUF 1.The PUF was prepared in The Sample is 20% 3.Data available in ASCII and SPSS formats 4.Since 2009, it is available for PUBLIC USE 5.Provided to IPUMS projects so it is available for users worldwide

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) 1.The PUF is compulsory output of every survey 2.More than 190 PUF data sets based on surveys and censuses 3.The closure of survey’s project not complete without the PUF 4.PUF release date is specified in PCBS statistical calendar

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) PCBS’ census PUF - International

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) PCBS’ PUF – The Web Portal

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices: Dissemination of Public Use Data files (PUF) PCBS’ PUF – The Web Portal

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Best Practices in Data Dissemination Public Use Data files (PUF) Ola Awad, Acting President March, 2010 Thank You