Housing Unit and Households Projection Methods in the Palestinian Territory up to 2010

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Development planners require future estimates about households and housing units in order to create appropriate strategies for short-term and long-term services in line with the size and need of the Palestinian society. There are several projection methods for households and housing units, however, internationally applied housing units projection methods cannot be applied to the Palestinian Territory in the present time due to lack of necessary data. Households’ projections have been used to identify the number of housing units, which the Palestinian Territory will need in the coming years. In this study a future estimates concerning the number of households and housing units based on several methods of projection: such as head of households rate method and average of household size method. According to estimates, the number of housing units of the Palestinian Territory will rise from 460,418 in 1997 to 752,875 in 2005 with an increasing rate of 63.5%. Estimates also show that the numb

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