• Methodology
• Sample distribution
• Occupation of respondents
• Results

A random sample of 1,190 Palestinians, over the age of 17 years, were interviewed throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip on 18/19/20 February 1993. The interviews were conducted on a face-to-face basis with people who visited general service offices to fill out application forms for their identity cards, travel documents, birth registrations, etc, in the main towns. The interviewers reported that some people filled out their questionnaire by themselves in the presence of the interviewer.

In the West Bank, approximately 690 questionnaires were allocated to each of the following major towns: Jenin, Tulkarem, Qalqilia, Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho. In the Gaza Strip, 500 questionnaired were divided between: Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah areas.

Of the 1,400 questionnaires, we received back 1,190 completed questionnaires. A few were discounted, either because the respondent was under 17 years of age or because the answers were not clear.

• 63.5% of the respondents were from the West Bank
• 36.5% from the Gaza Strip
• 21.7% said they live in villages
• 26.9% in refugee camps
• 51.4% in towns/cities
• (these percentages may not reflect the actual population distribution eg. in the Gaza Strip the percentage of refugees is much higher than in the West Bank)
• 85.4% were male
• 14.5% were female
• (the interviewers reported that a large number of women declined to be interviewed, particularly in the Gaza Stripl)
• The average of age of the respondents was 32 years, 95% of the sample ranged from 17 to 49 years.

Q.1 Do you think that the Palestinian delegation should not return to the negotiations until the issue of the expellees is solved?

Q.2 Do you think that the Palstinian delegation should return to the negotiations after the expellee problem has been adequately solved?

Q.3 Do you think that the Palestinian delegation should not return to the negotiations even after a solution to the expellees problem?

Q. 4 Do you think that the United States can play the role of mediator in the negotiations given its stand on the expellees problem?

Q.5 If an acceptable solution to the expellees problem is found, do you think that negotiations are an appropriate method to solve Palestinian problem?

Q.6 Who do you think represents the Palestinian People?

Q. 7 The attitude of Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza Strip to the question of who they think represents the Palestinian people?