Unpublished IMF estimates, April 1999. The estimated labour income loss from these closures is USD 38 million, based on average labour flow and wage rate data. This loss is equal to about 10 per cent of the value of donor disbursements in the WBGS in 1998. Throughout this section, average labour force data for 1997 refer only to the first three quarters of the year since PCBS did not conduct a full labour force survey in the fourth quarter of that year. Such estimates are based on demographic and net migration assumptions made by PCBS in 1994 and should be treated as an upper limit.
More recent evidence suggests slower rates of population growth.
Population data used to calculate absolute magnitudes are middle-series estimates as given in PCBS Demography of the Palestinian Population , 1994. Demography of the Palestinian Population , 1994. 5-11 and population estimates in PCBS Demography of the Palestinian Population , 1994. These estimates, like those in other parts of this section, include the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem who are included in the PCBS demographic estimates in Demography of the Palestinian People , 1994. Because the PCBS labour force surveys effectively exclude East Jerusalem, and because the proportion of the East Jerusalem labour force working in ICA is presumably higher than that for the rest of the WBGS, the estimate of total Palestinian employment in ICA is understated.