" Poverty in theKingdom ofSaudi Arabia andits Statistics AbstractThe report provides the statistical information about the poverty in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabiafrom December 2007 to October 2008. It is the largest survey in the country which provides thestatistics information of various fields such as money and banking statistics, investment fund,public finance, foreign trade, national account, share market, government specialized creditinstitutions, prices and cost of living index, balance of payment and international investmentposition and oil statistics. The appropriate data analysis tool is chosen and it is named as SPSS. Itrepresents an efficient statistical software which provides a solution for research and businessproblems. There are a lots of techniques can be provided by this tool such as hypothesis analysis,testing, reporting and ad-hoc analysis. The estimations are segregated according to the requiredand appropriate variables.The statistical information are obtained by performing analysisoperation using SPSS software. The balance sheets of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency(SAMA) provided the statement of revenues and expenses. These records are audited.The addedadvantages of the SPSS over other software are discussed. The most important section of thisreport is third topic which is data analysis and evaluating the obtained result. It consists of twomain parts such as descriptive data analysis and test analysis. The given data are examined andconclusion can be driven from obtained outputs from the graphs, bar charts, pie charts andhistograms.1Table of ContentsAbstract ........................................................................................................................................................ 1Chapter 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 41. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 41.1 Objective ...................................................................................................................................... 4Chapter 2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 62. Literature Review ............................................................................................................................... 6Chapter 3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 73. Sampling Protocol ............................................................................................................................... 73.1 Research Methodology ............................................................................................................... 73.1.1 Data Collection .................................................................................................................... 73.1.2 Variables .............................................................................................................................. 83.1.3 Statistical Methods .............................................................................................................. 93.2 Software Requirement .............................................................................................................. 10Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................................................... 114. Results and Findings ......................................................................................................................... 114.1 Descriptive Data Analysis & Test Analysis ............................................................................. 114.1.1 Money Banking Statistics and Insurance ........................................................................ 114.1.2 Share Market Analysis ..................................................................................................... 144.1.3 Investment Fund Statistics ............................................................................................... 164.1.4 Government Specialized Credit Institutions .................................................................. 194.1.5 Public Finance Statistics ................................................................................................... 224.1.6 Prices and Cost of Living Index ....................................................................................... 244.1.7 Foreign Trade Statistics .................................................................................................... 274.1.8 Balance of Payment Statistics and International Investment Position ......................... 324.1.9 National Account Statistics .............................................................................................. 354.1.10 Oil Statistics ....................................................................................................................... 394.1.11 Other Miscellaneous Statistics ......................................................................................... 48Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................................................... 755.1 Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 755.2 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 775.3 Policy Recommendation ............................................................................................................... 802 5.3.1 Recommendations for Research .......................................................................................... 805.3.2 Recommendations for Practitioners .................................................................................... 815.3.3 Recommendations for improving this study ....................................................................... 81References .............................................................................................................................................. 813 "