Sample data for exercises in Further Adventures in Data Cleaning.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Mohanad Hazem Qabil

Contents

Dirty Retail Store Sales Dataset

Overview

The Dirty Retail Store Sales dataset contains 12,575 rows of synthetic data representing sales transactions from a retail store. The dataset includes eight product categories with 25 items per category, each having static prices. It is designed to simulate real-world sales data, including intentional "dirtiness" such as missing or inconsistent values. This dataset is suitable for practicing data cleaning, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and feature engineering.

File Information

• File Name: retail_store_sales.csv
• Number of Rows: 12,575
• Number of Columns: 11

Columns Description

Categories and Items

The dataset includes the following categories, each containing 25 items with corresponding codes, names, and static prices:

Electric Household Essentials

Furniture

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Dirty Cafe Sales Dataset

Overview

The Dirty Cafe Sales dataset contains 10,000 rows of synthetic data representing sales transactions in a cafe. This dataset is intentionally "dirty," with missing values, inconsistent data, and errors introduced to provide a realistic scenario for data cleaning and exploratory data analysis (EDA). It can be used to practice cleaning techniques, data wrangling, and feature engineering.

File Information

• File Name: dirty_cafe_sales.csv
• Number of Rows: 10,000
• Number of Columns: 8

Columns Description

Data Characteristics

1. Missing Values:

   • Some columns (e.g., Item, Payment Method, Location) may contain missing values represented as None or empty cells.

2. Invalid Values:

   • Some rows contain invalid entries like "ERROR" or "UNKNOWN" to simulate real-world data issues.

3. Price Consistency:

   • Prices for menu items are consistent but may have missing or incorrect values introduced.

Menu Items

The dataset includes the following menu items with their respective price ranges:

Use Cases

This dataset is suitable for: - Practicing data cleaning techniques such as handling missing values, removing duplicates, and correcting invalid entries. - Exploring EDA techniques like visualizations and summary statistics. - Performing feature engineering for machine learning workflows.

Cleaning Steps Suggestions

To clean this dataset, consider the following steps: 1. Handle Missing Values: - Fill missing numeric values with the median or mean. - Replace missing categorical values with the mode or "Unknown."

1. Handle Invalid Values:

   • Replace invalid entries like "ERROR" and "UNKNOWN" with NaN or appropriate values.

2. Date Consistency:

   • Ensure all dates are in a consistent format.
   • Fill missing dates with plausible values based on nearby records.

3. Feature Engineering:

   • Create new columns, such as Day of the Week or Transaction Month, for further analysis.

License

This dataset is released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License. You are free to use, share, and adapt it, provided you give appropriate credit.

Feedback

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out through the dataset's discussion board on Kaggle.

In this project, we work on repairing three datasets:

• Trials design: This dataset was obtained from the European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Clinical Trials Database (EudraCT) register and the ground truth was created from external registries. In the dataset, multiple countries, identified by the attribute country_protocol_code, conduct the same clinical trials which is identified by eudract_number. Each clinical trial has a title that can help find informative details about the design of the trial.
• Trials population: This dataset delineates the demographic origins of participants in clinical trials primarily conducted across European countries. This dataset include structured attributes indicating whether the trial pertains to a specific gender, age group or healthy volunteers. Each of these categories is labeled as (`1') or (`0') respectively denoting whether it is included in the trials or not. It is important to note that the population category should remain consistent across all countries conducting the same clinical trial identified by an eudract_number. The ground truth samples in the dataset were established by aligning information about the trial populations provided by external registries, specifically the CT.gov database and the German Trials database. Additionally, the dataset comprises other unstructured attributes that categorize the inclusion criteria for trial participants such as inclusion.
• Allergens: This dataset contains information about products and their allergens. The data was collected from the German version of the `Alnatura' (Access date: 24 November, 2020), a free database of food products from around the world `Open Food Facts', and the websites: `Migipedia', 'Piccantino', and `Das Ist Drin'. There may be overlapping products across these websites. Each product in the dataset is identified by a unique code. Samples with the same code represent the same product but are extracted from a differentb source. The allergens are indicated by (‘2’) if present, or (‘1’) if there are traces of it, and (‘0’) if it is absent in a product. The dataset also includes information on ingredients in the products. Overall, the dataset comprises categorical structured data describing the presence, trace, or absence of specific allergens, and unstructured text describing ingredients.

N.B: Each '.zip' file contains a set of 5 '.csv' files which are part of the afro-mentioned datasets:

• "{dataset_name}_train.csv": samples used for the ML-model training. (e.g "allergens_train.csv")
• "{dataset_name}_test.csv": samples used to test the the ML-model performance. (e.g "allergens_test.csv")
• "{dataset_name}_golden_standard.csv": samples represent the ground truth of the test samples. (e.g "allergens_golden_standard.csv")
• "{dataset_name}_parker_train.csv": samples repaired using Parker Engine used for the ML-model training. (e.g "allergens_parker_train.csv")
• "{dataset_name}_parker_train.csv": samples repaired using Parker Engine used to test the the ML-model performance. (e.g "allergens_parker_test.csv")

The dissertation_demo.zip contains the base code and demonstration purpose for the dissertation: A Conceptual Model for Transparent, Reusable, and Collaborative Data Cleaning. Each chapter has a demo folder for demonstrating provenance queries or tools. The Airbnb dataset for demonstration and simulation is not included in this demo but is available to access directly from the reference website. Any updates on demonstration and examples can be found online at: https://github.com/nikolausn/dissertation_demo

All data are prone to error and require data cleaning prior to analysis. An important example is longitudinal growth data, for which there are no universally agreed standard methods for identifying and removing implausible values and many existing methods have limitations that restrict their usage across different domains. A decision-making algorithm that modified or deleted growth measurements based on a combination of pre-defined cut-offs and logic rules was designed. Five data cleaning methods for growth were tested with and without the addition of the algorithm and applied to five different longitudinal growth datasets: four uncleaned canine weight or height datasets and one pre-cleaned human weight dataset with randomly simulated errors. Prior to the addition of the algorithm, data cleaning based on non-linear mixed effects models was the most effective in all datasets and had on average a minimum of 26.00% higher sensitivity and 0.12% higher specificity than other methods. Data cleaning methods using the algorithm had improved data preservation and were capable of correcting simulated errors according to the gold standard; returning a value to its original state prior to error simulation. The algorithm improved the performance of all data cleaning methods and increased the average sensitivity and specificity of the non-linear mixed effects model method by 7.68% and 0.42% respectively. Using non-linear mixed effects models combined with the algorithm to clean data allows individual growth trajectories to vary from the population by using repeated longitudinal measurements, identifies consecutive errors or those within the first data entry, avoids the requirement for a minimum number of data entries, preserves data where possible by correcting errors rather than deleting them and removes duplications intelligently. This algorithm is broadly applicable to data cleaning anthropometric data in different mammalian species and could be adapted for use in a range of other domains.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Martin Kanju

Released under Other (specified in description)

Contents

Ahoy, data enthusiasts! Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will hoist your sails and navigate through the Statistics Canada website, uncovering hidden treasures in the form of data tables. With the wind at your back, you’ll master the art of downloading these invaluable Stats Can datasets while braving the occasional squall of data cleaning challenges using Excel with your trusty captains Vivek and Lucia at the helm.

Data cleaning is one of the most important but time-consuming tasks for data scientists. The data cleaning task consists of two major steps: (1) error detection and (2) error correction. The goal of error detection is to identify wrong data values. The goal of error correction is to fix these wrong values. Data cleaning is a challenging task due to the trade-off among correctness, completeness, and automation. In fact, detecting/correcting all data errors accurately without any user involvement is not possible for every dataset. We propose a novel data cleaning approach that detects/corrects data errors with a novel two-step task formulation. The intuition is that, by collecting a set of base error detectors/correctors that can independently mark/fix data errors, we can learn to combine them into a final set of data errors/corrections using a few informative user labels. First, each base error detector/corrector generates an initial set of potential data errors/corrections. Then, the approach ensembles the output of these base error detectors/correctors into one final set of data errors/corrections in a semi-supervised manner. In fact, the approach iteratively asks the user to annotate a tuple, i.e., marking/fixing a few data errors. The approach learns to generalize the user-provided error detection/correction examples to the rest of the dataset, accordingly. Our novel two-step formulation of the error detection/correction task has four benefits. First, the approach is configuration free and does not need any user-provided rules or parameters. In fact, the approach considers the base error detectors/correctors as black-box algorithms that are not necessarily correct or complete. Second, the approach is effective in the error detection/correction task as its first and second steps maximize recall and precision, respectively. Third, the approach also minimizes human involvement as it samples the most informative tuples of the dataset for user labeling. Fourth, the task formulation of our approach allows us to leverage previous data cleaning efforts to optimize the current data cleaning task. We design an end-to-end data cleaning pipeline according to this approach that takes a dirty dataset as input and outputs a cleaned dataset. Our pipeline leverages user feedback, a set of data cleaning algorithms, and a set of previously cleaned datasets, if available. Internally, our pipeline consists of an error detection system (named Raha), an error correction system (named Baran), and a transfer learning engine. As our extensive experiments show, our data cleaning systems are effective and efficient, and involve the user minimally. Raha and Baran significantly outperform existing data cleaning approaches in terms of effectiveness and human involvement on multiple well-known datasets.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Hussein Al Chami

Released under MIT

Contents

This dataset includes all of the data downloaded from GBIF (DOIs provided in README.md as well as below, downloaded Feb 2021) as well as data downloaded from SCAN. This dataset has 2,808,432 records and can be used as a reference to the verbatim data before it underwent the cleaning process. The only modifications made to this datset after direct download from the data portals are the following:

1) for GBIF records, I renamed the countryCode column to be "country" so that the column title is consistent across both GBIF and SCAN 2) A source column was added where I specify if the record came from GBIF or SCAN 3) Duplicate records across SCAN and GBIF were removed by identifying identical instances "catalogNumber" and "institutionCode" 4) Only the Darwin core columns (DwC) that were shared across downloaded datasets were retained. GBIF contained ~249 DwC variables, and SCAN data contained fewer, so this combined dataset only includes the ~80 columns shared between the two datasets

For GBIF, we downloaded the data in three separate chunks, therefore there are three DOIs. See below:

GBIF.org (3 February 2021) GBIF Occurrence Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.15468/dl.6cxfsw GBIF.org (3 February 2021) GBIF Occurrence Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.15468/dl.b9rfa7 GBIF.org (3 February 2021) GBIF Occurrence Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.15468/dl.w2nndm

Netflix is a popular streaming service that offers a vast catalog of movies, TV shows, and original contents. This dataset is a cleaned version of the original version which can be found here. The data consist of contents added to Netflix from 2008 to 2021. The oldest content is as old as 1925 and the newest as 2021. This dataset will be cleaned with PostgreSQL and visualized with Tableau. The purpose of this dataset is to test my data cleaning and visualization skills. The cleaned data can be found below and the Tableau dashboard can be found here .

Data Cleaning

We are going to: 1. Treat the Nulls 2. Treat the duplicates 3. Populate missing rows 4. Drop unneeded columns 5. Split columns Extra steps and more explanation on the process will be explained through the code comments

--View dataset

SELECT * 
FROM netflix;

--The show_id column is the unique id for the dataset, therefore we are going to check for duplicates
                                  
SELECT show_id, COUNT(*)                                                                                      
FROM netflix 
GROUP BY show_id                                                                                              
ORDER BY show_id DESC;

--No duplicates

--Check null values across columns

SELECT COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE show_id IS NULL) AS showid_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE type IS NULL) AS type_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE title IS NULL) AS title_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE director IS NULL) AS director_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE movie_cast IS NULL) AS movie_cast_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE country IS NULL) AS country_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE date_added IS NULL) AS date_addes_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE release_year IS NULL) AS release_year_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE rating IS NULL) AS rating_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE duration IS NULL) AS duration_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE listed_in IS NULL) AS listed_in_nulls,
    COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE description IS NULL) AS description_nulls
FROM netflix;

We can see that there are NULLS. 
director_nulls = 2634
movie_cast_nulls = 825
country_nulls = 831
date_added_nulls = 10
rating_nulls = 4
duration_nulls = 3 

The director column nulls is about 30% of the whole column, therefore I will not delete them. I will rather find another column to populate it. To populate the director column, we want to find out if there is relationship between movie_cast column and director column

-- Below, we find out if some directors are likely to work with particular cast

WITH cte AS
(
SELECT title, CONCAT(director, '---', movie_cast) AS director_cast 
FROM netflix
)

SELECT director_cast, COUNT(*) AS count
FROM cte
GROUP BY director_cast
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC;

With this, we can now populate NULL rows in directors 
using their record with movie_cast 

UPDATE netflix 
SET director = 'Alastair Fothergill'
WHERE movie_cast = 'David Attenborough'
AND director IS NULL ;

--Repeat this step to populate the rest of the director nulls
--Populate the rest of the NULL in director as "Not Given"

UPDATE netflix 
SET director = 'Not Given'
WHERE director IS NULL;

--When I was doing this, I found a less complex and faster way to populate a column which I will use next

Just like the director column, I will not delete the nulls in country. Since the country column is related to director and movie, we are going to populate the country column with the director column

--Populate the country using the director column

SELECT COALESCE(nt.country,nt2.country) 
FROM netflix AS nt
JOIN netflix AS nt2 
ON nt.director = nt2.director 
AND nt.show_id <> nt2.show_id
WHERE nt.country IS NULL;
UPDATE netflix
SET country = nt2.country
FROM netflix AS nt2
WHERE netflix.director = nt2.director and netflix.show_id <> nt2.show_id 
AND netflix.country IS NULL;


--To confirm if there are still directors linked to country that refuse to update

SELECT director, country, date_added
FROM netflix
WHERE country IS NULL;

--Populate the rest of the NULL in director as "Not Given"

UPDATE netflix 
SET country = 'Not Given'
WHERE country IS NULL;

The date_added rows nulls is just 10 out of over 8000 rows, deleting them cannot affect our analysis or visualization

--Show date_added nulls

SELECT show_id, date_added
FROM netflix_clean
WHERE date_added IS NULL;

--DELETE nulls

DELETE F...

Dataset

This dataset was created by Hassane Skikri

Released under CC0: Public Domain

Contents

Abstract

The main objectives of the survey were: - To obtain weights for the revision of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Funafuti; - To provide information on the nature and distribution of household income, expenditure and food consumption patterns; - To provide data on the household sector's contribution to the National Accounts - To provide information on economic activity of men and women to study gender issues - To undertake some poverty analysis

Geographic coverage

National, including Funafuti and Outer islands

Analysis unit

• Household
• individual

Universe

All the private household are included in the sampling frame. In each household selected, the current resident are surveyed, and people who are usual resident but are currently away (work, health, holydays reasons, or border student for example. If the household had been residing in Tuvalu for less than one year: - but intend to reside more than 12 months => The household is included - do not intend to reside more than 12 months => out of scope

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

It was decided that 33% (one third) sample was sufficient to achieve suitable levels of accuracy for key estimates in the survey. So the sample selection was spread proportionally across all the island except Niulakita as it was considered too small. For selection purposes, each island was treated as a separate stratum and independent samples were selected from each. The strategy used was to list each dwelling on the island by their geographical position and run a systematic skip through the list to achieve the 33% sample. This approach assured that the sample would be spread out across each island as much as possible and thus more representative.

For details please refer to Table 1.1 of the Report.

Sampling deviation

Only the island of Niulakita was not included in the sampling frame, considered too small.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

There were three main survey forms used to collect data for the survey. Each question are writen in English and translated in Tuvaluan on the same version of the questionnaire. The questionnaires were designed based on the 2004 survey questionnaire.

HOUSEHOLD FORM - composition of the household and demographic profile of each members - dwelling information - dwelling expenditure - transport expenditure - education expenditure - health expenditure - land and property expenditure - household furnishing - home appliances - cultural and social payments - holydays/travel costs - Loans and saving - clothing - other major expenditure items

INDIVIDUAL FORM - health and education - labor force (individu aged 15 and above) - employment activity and income (individu aged 15 and above): wages and salaries, working own business, agriculture and livestock, fishing, income from handicraft, income from gambling, small scale activies, jobs in the last 12 months, other income, childreen income, tobacco and alcohol use, other activities, and seafarer

DIARY (one diary per week, on a 2 weeks period, 2 diaries per household were required) - All kind of expenses - Home production - food and drink (eaten by the household, given away, sold) - Goods taken from own business (consumed, given away) - Monetary gift (given away, received, winning from gambling) - Non monetary gift (given away, received, winning from gambling)

Questionnaire Design Flaws Questionnaire design flaws address any problems with the way questions were worded which will result in an incorrect answer provided by the respondent. Despite every effort to minimize this problem during the design of the respective survey questionnaires and the diaries, problems were still identified during the analysis of the data. Some examples are provided below:

Gifts, Remittances & Donations Collecting information on the following: - the receipt and provision of gifts - the receipt and provision of remittances - the provision of donations to the church, other communities and family occasions is a very difficult task in a HIES. The extent of these activities in Tuvalu is very high, so every effort should be made to address these activities as best as possible. A key problem lies in identifying the best form (questionnaire or diary) for covering such activities. A general rule of thumb for a HIES is that if the activity occurs on a regular basis, and involves the exchange of small monetary amounts or in-kind gifts, the diary is more appropriate. On the other hand, if the activity is less infrequent, and involves larger sums of money, the questionnaire with a recall approach is preferred. It is not always easy to distinguish between the two for the different activities, and as such, both the diary and questionnaire were used to collect this information. Unfortunately it probably wasn?t made clear enough as to what types of transactions were being collected from the different sources, and as such some transactions might have been missed, and others counted twice. The effects of these problems are hopefully minimal overall.

Defining Remittances Because people have different interpretations of what constitutes remittances, the questionnaire needs to be very clear as to how this concept is defined in the survey. Unfortunately this wasn?t explained clearly enough so it was difficult to distinguish between a remittance, which should be of a more regular nature, and a one-off monetary gift which was transferred between two households.

Business Expenses Still Recorded The aim of the survey is to measure "household" expenditure, and as such, any expenditure made by a household for an item or service which was primarily used for a business activity should be excluded. It was not always clear in the questionnaire that this was the case, and as such some business expenses were included. Efforts were made during data cleaning to remove any such business expenses which would impact significantly on survey results.

Purchased goods given away as a gift When a household makes a gift donation of an item it has purchased, this is recorded in section 5 of the diary. Unfortunately it was difficult to know how to treat these items as it was not clear as to whether this item had been recorded already in section 1 of the diary which covers purchases. The decision was made to exclude all information of gifts given which were considered to be purchases, as these items were assumed to have already been recorded already in section 1. Ideally these items should be treated as a purchased gift given away, which in turn is not household consumption expenditure, but this was not possible.

Some key items missed in the Questionnaire Although not a big issue, some key expenditure items were omitted from the questionnaire when it would have been best to collect them via this schedule. A key example being electric fans which many households in Tuvalu own.

Cleaning operations

Consistency of the data: - each questionnaire was checked by the supervisor during and after the collection - before data entry, all the questionnaire were coded - the CSPRo data entry system included inconsistency checks which allow the NSO staff to point some errors and to correct them with imputation estimation from their own knowledge (no time for double entry), 4 data entry operators. - after data entry, outliers were identified in order to check their consistency.

All data entry, including editing, edit checks and queries, was done using CSPro (Census Survey Processing System) with additional data editing and cleaning taking place in Excel.

The staff from the CSD was responsible for undertaking the coding and data entry, with assistance from an additional four temporary staff to help produce results in a more timely manner.

Although enumeration didn't get completed until mid June, the coding and data entry commenced as soon as forms where available from Funafuti, which was towards the end of March. The coding and data entry was then completed around the middle of July.

A visit from an SPC consultant then took place to undertake initial cleaning of the data, primarily addressing missing data items and missing schedules. Once the initial data cleaning was undertaken in CSPro, data was transferred to Excel where it was closely scrutinized to check that all responses were sensible. In the cases where unusual values were identified, original forms were consulted for these households and modifications made to the data if required.

Despite the best efforts being made to clean the data file in preparation for the analysis, no doubt errors will still exist in the data, due to its size and complexity. Having said this, they are not expected to have significant impacts on the survey results.

Under-Reporting and Incorrect Reporting as a result of Poor Field Work Procedures The most crucial stage of any survey activity, whether it be a population census or a survey such as a HIES is the fieldwork. It is crucial for intense checking to take place in the field before survey forms are returned to the office for data processing. Unfortunately, it became evident during the cleaning of the data that fieldwork wasn?t checked as thoroughly as required, and as such some unexpected values appeared in the questionnaires, as well as unusual results appearing in the diaries. Efforts were made to indentify the main issues which would have the greatest impact on final results, and this information was modified using local knowledge, to a more reasonable answer, when required.

Data Entry Errors Data entry errors are always expected, but can be kept to a minimum with

Abstract

The Palestinian society's access to information and communication technology tools is one of the main inputs to achieve social development and economic change to the status of Palestinian society; on the basis of its impact on the revolution of information and communications technology that has become a feature of this era. Therefore, and within the scope of the efforts exerted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in providing official Palestinian statistics on various areas of life for the Palestinian community, PCBS implemented the household survey for information and communications technology for the year 2019. The main objective of this report is to present the trends of accessing and using information and communication technology by households and individuals in Palestine, and enriching the information and communications technology database with indicators that meet national needs and are in line with international recommendations.

Geographic coverage

Palestine, West Bank, Gaza strip

Analysis unit

Household, Individual

Universe

All Palestinian households and individuals (10 years and above) whose usual place of residence in 2019 was in the state of Palestine.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sampling Frame The sampling frame consists of master sample which were enumerated in the 2017 census. Each enumeration area consists of buildings and housing units with an average of about 150 households. These enumeration areas are used as primary sampling units (PSUs) in the first stage of the sampling selection.

Sample size The estimated sample size is 8,040 households.

Sample Design The sample is three stages stratified cluster (pps) sample. The design comprised three stages: Stage (1): Selection a stratified sample of 536 enumeration areas with (pps) method. Stage (2): Selection a stratified random sample of 15 households from each enumeration area selected in the first stage. Stage (3): Selection one person of the (10 years and above) age group in a random method by using KISH TABLES.

Sample Strata The population was divided by: 1- Governorate (16 governorates, where Jerusalem was considered as two statistical areas) 2- Type of Locality (urban, rural, refugee camps).

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

Questionnaire The survey questionnaire consists of identification data, quality controls and three main sections: Section I: Data on household members that include identification fields, the characteristics of household members (demographic and social) such as the relationship of individuals to the head of household, sex, date of birth and age.

Section II: Household data include information regarding computer processing, access to the Internet, and possession of various media and computer equipment. This section includes information on topics related to the use of computer and Internet, as well as supervision by households of their children (5-17 years old) while using the computer and Internet, and protective measures taken by the household in the home.

Section III: Data on Individuals (10 years and over) about computer use, access to the Internet and possession of a mobile phone.

Cleaning operations

Programming Consistency Check The data collection program was designed in accordance with the questionnaire's design and its skips. The program was examined more than once before the conducting of the training course by the project management where the notes and modifications were reflected on the program by the Data Processing Department after ensuring that it was free of errors before going to the field.

Using PC-tablet devices reduced data processing stages, and fieldworkers collected data and sent it directly to server, and project management withdraw the data at any time.

In order to work in parallel with Jerusalem (J1), a data entry program was developed using the same technology and using the same database used for PC-tablet devices.

Data Cleaning After the completion of data entry and audit phase, data is cleaned by conducting internal tests for the outlier answers and comprehensive audit rules through using SPSS program to extract and modify errors and discrepancies to prepare clean and accurate data ready for tabulation and publishing.

Tabulation After finalizing checking and cleaning data from any errors. Tables extracted according to prepared list of tables.

Response rate

The response rate in the West Bank reached 77.6% while in the Gaza Strip it reached 92.7%.

Sampling error estimates

Sampling Errors Data of this survey affected by sampling errors due to use of the sample and not a complete enumeration. Therefore, certain differences are expected in comparison with the real values obtained through censuses. Variance were calculated for the most important indicators, There is no problem to disseminate results at the national level and at the level of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Non-Sampling Errors Non-Sampling errors are possible at all stages of the project, during data collection or processing. These are referred to non-response errors, response errors, interviewing errors and data entry errors. To avoid errors and reduce their effects, strenuous efforts were made to train the field workers intensively. They were trained on how to carry out the interview, what to discuss and what to avoid, as well as practical and theoretical training during the training course.

The implementation of the survey encountered non-response where the case (household was not present at home) during the fieldwork visit become the high percentage of the non response cases. The total non-response rate reached 17.5%. The refusal percentage reached 2.9% which is relatively low percentage compared to the household surveys conducted by PCBS, and the reason is the questionnaire survey is clear.

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Abstract

The main objective of the HEIS survey is to obtain detailed data on household expenditure and income, linked to various demographic and socio-economic variables, to enable computation of poverty indices and determine the characteristics of the poor and prepare poverty maps. Therefore, to achieve these goals, the sample had to be representative on the sub-district level. 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 collected through the survey helped in achieving the following objectives: 1. Provide data weights that reflect the relative importance of consumer expenditure items used in the preparation of the consumer price index 2. Study the consumer expenditure pattern prevailing in the society and the impact of demograohic and socio-economic variables on those patterns 3. Calculate the average annual income of the household and the individual, and assess the relationship between income and different economic and social factors, such as profession and educational level of the head of the household and other indicators 4. Study the distribution of individuals and households by income and expenditure categories and analyze the factors associated with it 5. Provide the necessary data for the national accounts related to overall consumption and income of the household sector 6. Provide the necessary income data to serve in calculating poverty indices and identifying the poor chracteristics as well as drawing poverty maps 7. Provide the data necessary for the formulation, follow-up and evaluation of economic and social development programs, including those addressed to eradicate poverty

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

• Household/families
• Individuals

Universe

The survey covered a national sample of households and all individuals permanently residing in surveyed households.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The 2008 Household Expenditure and Income Survey sample was designed using two-stage cluster stratified sampling method. In the first stage, the primary sampling units (PSUs), the blocks, were drawn using probability proportionate to the size, through considering the number of households in each block to be the block size. The second stage included drawing the household sample (8 households from each PSU) using the systematic sampling method. Fourth substitute households from each PSU were drawn, using the systematic sampling method, to be used on the first visit to the block in case that any of the main sample households was not visited for any reason.

To estimate the sample size, the coefficient of variation and design effect in each subdistrict were calculated for the expenditure variable from data of the 2006 Household Expenditure and Income Survey. This results was used to estimate the sample size at sub-district level, provided that the coefficient of variation of the expenditure variable at the sub-district level did not exceed 10%, with a minimum number of clusters that should not be less than 6 at the district level, that is to ensure good clusters representation in the administrative areas to enable drawing poverty pockets.

It is worth mentioning that the expected non-response in addition to areas where poor families are concentrated in the major cities were taken into consideration in designing the sample. Therefore, a larger sample size was taken from these areas compared to other ones, in order to help in reaching the poverty pockets and covering them.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

List of survey questionnaires: (1) General Form (2) Expenditure on food commodities Form (3) Expenditure on non-food commodities Form

Cleaning operations

Raw Data The design and implementation of this survey procedures were: 1. Sample design and selection 2. Design of forms/questionnaires, guidelines to assist in filling out the questionnaires, and preparing instruction manuals 3. Design the tables template to be used for the dissemination of the survey results 4. Preparation of the fieldwork phase including printing forms/questionnaires, instruction manuals, data collection instructions, data checking instructions and codebooks 5. Selection and training of survey staff to collect data and run required data checkings 6. Preparation and implementation of the pretest phase for the survey designed to test and develop forms/questionnaires, instructions and software programs required for data processing and production of survey results 7. Data collection 8. Data checking and coding 9. Data entry 10. Data cleaning using data validation programs 11. Data accuracy and consistency checks 12. Data tabulation and preliminary results 13. Preparation of the final report and dissemination of final results

Harmonized Data - The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to clean and harmonize the datasets - The harmonization process started with cleaning all raw data files received from the Statistical Office - Cleaned data files were then all merged to produce one data file on the individual level containing all variables subject to harmonization - A country-specific program was generated for each dataset to generate/compute/recode/rename/format/label harmonized variables - A post-harmonization cleaning process was run on the data - Harmonized data was saved on the household as well as the individual level, in SPSS and converted to STATA format