Sampling procedure
<p style="border:solid thin black;"> THE CLEANED AND HARMONIZED VERSION OF THE SURVEY DATA PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH FORUM REPRESENTS 100% OF THE ORIGINAL SURVEY DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS OF THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN</p>
Survey Frame
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The sample of this survey is based on the frame provided by the data of the Population and Housing Census, 2004.
The Kingdom was divided into strata, where each city with a population of 100,000 persons or more was considered as a large city.
The total number of these cities is 6. Each governorate (except for the 6 large cities) was divided into rural and urban areas. The rest of the urban areas in each governorate were considered as an independent stratum. The same was applied to rural areas where they were considered as an independent stratum. The total number of strata was 30.
And because of the existence of significant variation in the social and economic characteristics in large cities, in particular, and in urban areas in general, each stratum of the large cities and urban strata was divided into four sub-stratums according to the socio- economic characteristics provided by the population and housing census 2004 aiming at providing homogeneous strata.
Sample Design
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The sample of this survey was designed using a stratified cluster sampling method. The sample is considered representative on the Kingdom, rural, urban, regions and governorates levels, however, it does not represent the non-Jordanians.
Sampling notes
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The frame excludes the population living in remote areas (most of whom are nomads). In addition to that, the frame does not include collective dwellings, such as hotels, hospitals, work camps, prisons and alike.
However, it is worth noting that the collective households identified in the harmonized data, through a variable indicating the household type, are those reported without heads in the raw data, and in which the relationship of all household members to head was reported "other".
This sample is also not representative for the non-Jordanian population.