COVID 19 Business Pulse Survey, CMMENT-(March-May) 2020 - Palestine

Abstract --------------------------- The world is witnessing rapid changes resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which it is affecting all aspects of life. It is quite obvious that such effects have negatively impacted the economic, social, environmental and health conditions. This critical situation has imposed tough challenges against the Palestinian economy that would require observation, following up and monitoring the Palestinian institutions' economic conditions during the pandemic in order to measure the size of changes that have occurred on those institutions' economic conditions, as well as being comparable with normal and exceptional conditions. To that end, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) took the responsibility of implementing the COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey to meet the needs of policy and decision makers from both the private and public sectors, in addition to civil society and international institutions in a manner that contributes to developing programs and interventions that can mitigate the impacts and consequences of this pandemic. Despite the closure of borders around the world and the aggressive containment measures, the Coronavirus (COVID19) continues to spread globally. Therefore, the aim of the COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey, 2020 is to assess the dynamics of the impacts of COVID-19 on small, medium and large institutions in Palestine. Geographic coverage --------------------------- National Analysis unit --------------------------- Enterprises Universe --------------------------- The survey covered a national sample of enterprises working in any of the following activities: industry, construction, internal trade, information and communication, transportation and storage, and services. Kind of data --------------------------- Sample survey data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- Sample and Frame: The sample is One-Stage Stratified Systematic Random Sample (without replacement). Sample Strata: Three levels are used to divide the population into strata: 1. Region (North of the West Bank in addition to Jericho Governorate, Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, Jerusalem Governorate, Bethlehem Governorate, Hebron Governorate, Gaza Strip) 2. Strata were created based on the fourth digit of ISIC-4, excluding services sector based on the second in which every activity presents an actual stratum. 3. Enterprise size (small, medium, large) by number of employees. Sample Size: 13,974 enterprises were reached of which,11,243 enterprises responded on COVID-19 questions, and 10,602 enterprises responded on financial questions (baseline of economic indicators) Mode of data collection --------------------------- Face-to-face [f2f] & Computer Assisted telephone Interview [cati] Research instrument --------------------------- The survey's questionnaire was designed to achieve the objectives of this study. The questionnaire included essential variables required to study the impacts of COVID-19 on small, medium and large institutions in the West Bank and Gaza. It was oriented by joint efforts between PCBS team and the World Bank team and cooperation with GIZ and international institutions adaptation to the Palestinian situation. Note: The questionnaire could be seen in the documentation materials tab. Cleaning operations --------------------------- Notes on Data: 1. The data was separated into two files, one file contains the data for establishment's responses on COVID-19 questions, and the other contains the data for establishment's responses on financial questions (baseline of economic indicators). The two data sets cannot be combined at this stage. 2. The financial data (baseline of economic indicators) excluded those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israeli Occupation in 1967. 3. The services survey covers profit, non-profit enterprises, and output of non-profit enterprises in the National Accounts System 2008 (SNA'2008) equals to the value of intermediate consumption, and the value of employee compensation, and the value of depreciation of fixed assets, in addition to the value of net taxes and fees on production. 4. Financial data were collected in NIS Response rate --------------------------- Response Rate: For COVID-19 survey the Response rate values is: - The size of the selected sample in Palestine was 13,974 institutions. - The size of the achieved sample from the field was 11,243 institutions in Palestine. - Non-response cases: 1,491. - Over-coverage cases: 1,240. - Net sample: 12,734 - Response rate: 88.3%. - Non-response rate: 11.7 %. - Over-coverage rate: 8.9%. For financial questions (baseline of economic indicators), the response rate values is: - The size of the achieved sample from the field was 10,643 institutions in Palestine. - Non-response cases: 2,023. - Over-coverage cases: 1,308. - Net sample: 12,666 - Response rate: 84.0%. - Non-response rate: 16.0 %. - Over-coverage rate: 9.4%