Notes (Chapter 2)
- The present survey, based on a randomly selected
sample of the population in Gaza and the West Bank refugee camps, can
give only relative results as percentage distributions. Estimation of
absolute results - e.g. the size of the labour force in the survey areas
is crucially dependent on the accuracy of estimates of the total
population in the survey areas.
- Heiberg, Marianne and Geir Øvesen (1993),
Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A
Survey of Living Conditions, Oslo: FAFO report 151. p. 182. The survey
upon which this book is based, will subsequently be referred to as FALCOT
92.
- Heiberg, Marianne and Geir Øvesen (1993), p. 189.
- Heiberg, Marianne and Geir Øvesen (1993),
endnotes 43 and 44, page 217.
- ILO's labour force classification is based on a
person's activities the last week prior to the survey. In the
discussion below the concept "employed persons" will apply to all
persons in the (adult) survey population who worked at least one week in
a one month reference period, regardless of age or labour force
status. The reference period either refers to the last month prior to the
survey (October/November 1993), or the same month in 1992.
The use of one month as a reference period for employment characteristics
was made to reduce vulnerability to sudden political events or possible
seasonal variations. In general the two groups "labour force" and
"employed persons" overlap. Ninety-four per cent of "employed persons"
were classified as labour force members, and 85% of labour force members
belonged to the group of "employed persons".
Work types and sectors where many workers have very sporadic labour
activity may, however, be under-represented among "employed persons"
compared to the "labour force". This may in particular be the case for
workers who receive daily wages.
The number of persons holding secondary jobs was very low in 1992 and
1993, (1.5% and 2.5% of employed persons respectively). Employment thus
refers exclusively to "main" employment in the reference period.
- Comparisons between 1993 and 1992 are based mainly
on questions concerning 1993 and 1992 employment patterns for the
persons interviewed in the 1993 survey. As a result, comparisons across
the 1993 survey data set may under-estimate the extent of changes due to
a plausible tendency among respondents to report the same employment
pattern for both years.
For the Gaza Strip, data from FALCOT 92 (another sample, but the
same sampling frame) have also been used as a reference. Comparison
between the two surveys can be made for Gaza only, due to the small
sample of the West Bank refugee camps in FALCOT 92. A possible source of
error when compairing results between the two surveys would be variations
in classification practice for variables with many answer alternatives,
in particular, for type and sector of employment.
- World Bank (1993), Developing the Occupied
Territories, Volume 2, Chapter 5 and Annex module a) and c).
- Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (1987),
Projections of Population in Judea, Samaria and Gaza Area up to 2002,
Based on the Population in 1982, Special Series No. 802.
- World Bank (1993), Developing the Occupied
Territories, Volume 6, Page 11. Tables from Abdel-Tattah Abu
Shokor, "External Migration from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and its
Economic and Social Impact". Arab Thought Forum, (1990), in Arabic,
assembled by the World Bank.
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