The services directory is prepared by getting data and information related to the services from their main sources, i.e. the administrative records of different government organs. These data and information are dumped and saved automatically, to be processed and reviewed,  in addition to giving  feedback, and having them classified by administrative region.
This is followed by the next step, which is the field visit to the administrative headquarters (emirate, province, and center) to preview data and add what is new to guarantee the inclusion of the right names of different localities in the directory. Besides, there are data and information that cannot be obtained except through conducting the field survey, such as: The data concerning distance, direction, road type, and the nearest populated place where educational or health services are available for the localities that do not provide such services.
The following are some clarifications about the concept of data and information in the directory and explanation of some used symbols:

1. Data concerning distance, direction and road type mean: The distance and direction of each populated locality, the type of the road leading to it from the administrative unit it is linked to, whether it is directly linked to the emirate of the administrative region, or to a governorate or a municipality.
2. By the nearest city or village providing education or health services, with the distance and road type, is meant: The nearest populated locality that provides general and governmental educational service, and the nearest locality that provides governmental health service (dispensary, primary health-care center, hospital.)  
3. The data of distance, direction, and road type of all emirates of the administrative regions relative to the capital city of Riyadh.
4. Doctors by sex, including dentists and nursing staff members by sex but this does not include the midwife
5. Property ownership code in the public education. Code (1) for owner and code (2) for tenant.
6. Number (0) in the field of male or female teachers over different educational stages indicates that there are no full-time male or female teachers teaching in this stage, and that the education process is undertaken by male or female teachers working primarily in different education stages. Also, the (0) classrooms for the secondary stage (male and female courses), might mean that non-separated halls are in place instead of class rooms.
7. Public education includes foreign education in the locality.
8. Number of services as the work office...etc. includes a number of branches and offices of government agencies, including the independent women offices, which are not inside the branches.
9. Public services are not included in the number of services in the locality as (general electricity, public water network, land line, mobile phone and Internet network)
10. Data of population and services of administrative centers in the geographical scope of cities are included in these cities
11. Some of the populated localities which provide educational and health services, but which have no residents refer to: public sites located amidst a group of villages, or in security localities that provide services. 
12. The data represent the actual services provided in the cities and villages of the Kingdom of the fiscal year 1436/1437H.