Study on the Dynamics of Arab Social Transformation - Focus on Collection and Analysis of Panel Data

该项目的主要目的是为阿拉伯国家，特别是目前面临严重社会和经济问题的埃及和约旦的社会经济实证研究建立一个数据库。为此目的，该项目侧重于收集通过在最小的行政单位--乡村和城镇--进行社会调查而获得的以家庭为基础的微观数据。面板数据是通过多年后对有关家庭的重复调查而构建的，用于分析家庭层面的社会经济变化。这种方法不仅能有效地厘清有关户主的静态经济行为；消费、储蓄、就业等模式，而且还能厘清经济生活、生命周期等变化的动态。基于收集的家庭微观数据，部分研究成果已经公布。

The main aim of this project is to construct a database for the empirical study on the social economy in the Arab countries; especially Egypt and Jordan that are now facing severe social and economic problems. For this aim, the project focused on collecting and panelizing household-based micro data obtained by conducting social surveys at the smallest unit of administration: village and towns. The panel data are constructed by repeating the survey of the households concerned after several years, and used for analyzing the social and economic changes at household level. This method is effective to clarify not only the static economic actions of the heads of the households concerned; patterns of consumption, saving, employment and so on, but also the dynamics of the changes in economic life, life cycle and so on. Some parts of the research results has already been published based on the collected household-based micro data.