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The most
recent economical survey prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali revealed that:
(78.6%) Are worried about their personal security.
(80.9%) Of the Palestinians are worried about the naked subsistence of
their
families at present.
(78.1%) Evaluated their economic condition as bad
(62.3%) Are pessimistic about the improvement of the economic and
political
conditions.
(62.1%) Hold the United States, Israel and other donor countries
responsible for
the deterioration of the economic conditions in the Palestinian
territories.
Beit Sahour - Information Section:
In the most recent poll prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali and conducted by
the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO) during the period from
Oct. 26th to Nov. 1st, 2006, a random sample of (1000) respondents
representing the various demographic specimens of the population in the
West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip over (18) years has
been interviewed. The outcome revealed that (80.9%) of the Palestinian
public are worried about the naked subsistence of their families at
present. The most significant findings the poll has shown, Dr. Kukali,
the Director of PCPO, said, is that pessimism is rising among the
Palestinians about the possibility of improving the economic and
political conditions, specifying that the rate of the pessimists reached
now (62.3%). Compared with the outcome of a former poll published on
13.9.2005, one can perceive that the rate of the pessimists has
increased by (33.2%) since it was at that time (29.1%). Dr. Kukali added
that two-thirds of the Palestinian people evaluated their economic
conditions as 'bad' showing thereby an increase of (24.8 %) compared
with the outcome of the afore-said poll, in which the rate was (53.3%).
He further indicated that (62.1%) of the Palestinians hold the United
States, Israel and other donor countries responsible for the
deterioration of the economic conditions in the Palestinian territories.
Dr. Kukali further pointed out that the indications of this survey
should be taken very seriously because they abundantly show the dreadful
extent of the recession that the economic and living conditions have
experienced compared with the outcome of a poll conducted last year.
This is a clear evidence, Dr. Kukali said, that the Palestinian citizen
is suffering from an increasingly suffocating economical crisis due to
the dominance of several problems caused by high rates of unemployment,
rise in prices and the non-payment of the salaries of around 160.000
employees of the public sector for about nine months up to this moment.
This hardship is substantially aggravated by the halt, or at least the
drastic reduction of the financial assistance the donor countries
committed themselves to provide the Palestinians with. Add thereto the
refusal of Israel to transfer the amounts of money due to the
Palestinians. Dr. Kukali remarked that these results simply call upon
the donor countries, chiefly the United States, and also Israel, to
reconsider their decision as not to further escalate the hardship that
casts its shadow on the deteriorating economic condition of the
Palestinian people.
Dr. Nabil Kukali said the results of the poll where as follows:
The concern about the naked subsistence
Responding to the question: "Up to which extent are you worried about
the naked subsistence of your family at present? ",(43.7%) answered
"worried", (37.2%) are "too much worried", (13.0%) "not so much worried
", (4.7%) "not worried at all" and (1.4%) answered "I don't know".
The economic conditions
(78.1%) of the Palestinians evaluated the general economic condition in
the Palestinian territories as "bad" whilst (19.4%) said "it's
mediocre", only (2.0%) described it as "good" and (0.5 %) declined to
answer.
Regarding the question: " Do you think that your economic condition will
become better or worse during the next period of time? ", (22.1%)
answered "better", (49.2%) answered "worse", (26.9%) think that "it will
remain unchanged" and (1.8%) "don't know".
Whom to be held responsible for the deterioration of the economic
conditions
Responding to the question: "According to your opinion, who is
responsible for the deterioration of the economic conditions in the
territories of the Palestinian Authority?", (12.2%) answered "Fateh",
(24.6%) "Hamas", (30.6%) "the United States of America", (28.4%)
"Israel", (3.1%) "the EU" and (1.1%) answered "I don't know".
Significance of the foreign aid
Responding to the question: "Up to which extent does the European and US
financial aid contribute generally to the Palestinians' well-being?",
(39.9%) answered "to a high degree", (47.8%) said "to a moderate
degree", (8.5%) "to a slight degree", while (3.5%) said "to a nil
degree" and (0.3%) "Don't know".
The personal security
Regarding the question: "Up to which extent are you worried about your
personal security ?", (29.3%) answered "too much worried", (49.3%) are
"worried", (14.3%) are "not so much worried", (5.8%) are "not worried at
all" and (1.3%) answered " I don't know " .
The future perspective
(34.9%) of the respondents answered that they, notwithstanding the
prevailing political and economical conditions of the country, are
"optimistic", whilst (62.3%) said they are " pessimistic " and (2.8%)
declined to answer.
The concerns of the citizen
Responding to the question: " What is your main concern at present ? ",
(30.2%) answered " job / money", (35.2%) "the security", (12.5%) "the
health" and (22.1%) "the future".
The content with the life
Answering the question: " How much are you in general content with your
life? " taking into consideration that the answers were in figures from
1 to 10 where (1) stands for the utmost degree of discontent and (10)
for the utmost degree of content. The outcome was in average (4.77),
which means a fall of (0.9) compared with that of the last year, where
the average stood at (5.67).
Methodology of the Survey Study:
Mr. Elias Kukali, a staff member of the Research and Studies' Section at
the PCPO, said that all interviews of this survey were conducted inside
the respondents' homes, i.e. face-to-face during different working
hours, at least 5 hours a day, including the evening time, in order to
ensure proper representation of those sub-groups of the population,
which would otherwise be difficult to reach and selecting one individual
in each household using Last Birthday Method. The choices were taken
from a total of (150) election sites, from which (110) sites are located
in West Bank and (40) sites in Gaza Strip according to the distribution
of the Central Election Commission. These election sites were randomly
chosen by using the method of the simple random sample. These in turn
were the beginning of the random sample choice made from those regions
in accordance with PCPO's long experienced methodology.
Mr. E. Kukali has further established that the margin of error was
(±3.1%) at a significance and confidence levels of (5%) and (95%)
respectively. He added that the rate of the female respondents in this
survey was (48.9%) against (51.1%) male respondents. The distribution of
the random sample between the Palestinian two major regions was (63.1%)
in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and (36.9%) in Gaza Strip,
and allocated as follows: (50.7%) for the towns, (31.1%) for the
villages and (18.2%) for the camps.
Contact Persons: Dr. Nabil Kukali & Elias Kukali
Tel: 00970 2 277 4846, Fax: 00970 2 277 4892
Mobile: 00972 547 216 643 / 00970 599 726 878
P.O. Box 15, Beit Sahour - Palestine
Email: kukali@p-ol.com
Website: www.pcpo.ps
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