Census of Population and Housing 1995 - IPUMS Subset
Israel, 1995
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Central Bureau of Statistics - Israel, Minnesota Population Center
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- ISR1995-H-H
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Total monthly household income (ILS) (IL1995A_0449)
Data file: ISR1995-P-H
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
227
End:
228
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Part C: Anyone 15 years and older is requested to fill-in both pages
[Questions 14-38 were asked of people 15 years or older.]
Income from self-employed work or as a farm owner
[Question 36 were asked of persons age 15+ who have worked during the past 12 months.]
36. What was your gross income from your work as self-employed or a farm owner?
Please include withdrawals from the business for private purposes as well as personal taxes such as income tax and National Insurance payments.
A. Gross income for September 1995.
[] NIS _ _ _ _ _ _
[] If you had no income please mark X
B. Gross income for 1994.
[] NIS _ _ _ _ _ _
[] If you had no income please mark X
37. Did you receive any National Security annuities during September, 1995?
A joint annuity (such as a couple's joint pension, annuity for children) should be marked for one of the couple only. Please answer all questions.
A. National Security children's pay
[] 1. Yes
[] 2. No
B. National Security old age pension
[] 1. Yes
[] 2. No
C. Other National Security annuities
[] 1. Yes
[] 2. No
38. Did you, during September 1995, have income from the following sources?
Joint income (such as property revenues) should be reported by one of the couple only. Please answer all questions.
A. Pension from a place of work or a Kupat Tagmulim in Israel.
[] 1. Yes. The sum in NIS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2. No
B. Pension or reparation from abroad.
[] 1. Yes. The sum in NIS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2. No
C. Other regular income, from sources other than work such as: pension from the Ministry of Defense, income from renting property, immigration absorption payments, grants, income from the army for compulsory service.
[] 1. Yes. The sum in NIS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2. No
[Questions 14-38 were asked of people 15 years or older.]
Income from self-employed work or as a farm owner
[Question 36 were asked of persons age 15+ who have worked during the past 12 months.]
36. What was your gross income from your work as self-employed or a farm owner?
Please include withdrawals from the business for private purposes as well as personal taxes such as income tax and National Insurance payments.
A. Gross income for September 1995.
[] NIS _ _ _ _ _ _
[] If you had no income please mark X
B. Gross income for 1994.
[] NIS _ _ _ _ _ _
[] If you had no income please mark X
37. Did you receive any National Security annuities during September, 1995?
A joint annuity (such as a couple's joint pension, annuity for children) should be marked for one of the couple only. Please answer all questions.
A. National Security children's pay
[] 1. Yes
[] 2. No
B. National Security old age pension
[] 1. Yes
[] 2. No
C. Other National Security annuities
[] 1. Yes
[] 2. No
38. Did you, during September 1995, have income from the following sources?
Joint income (such as property revenues) should be reported by one of the couple only. Please answer all questions.
A. Pension from a place of work or a Kupat Tagmulim in Israel.
[] 1. Yes. The sum in NIS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2. No
B. Pension or reparation from abroad.
[] 1. Yes. The sum in NIS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2. No
C. Other regular income, from sources other than work such as: pension from the Ministry of Defense, income from renting property, immigration absorption payments, grants, income from the army for compulsory service.
[] 1. Yes. The sum in NIS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2. No
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | No income |
| 1 | 100-499 ILS |
| 2 | 500-999 ILS |
| 3 | 1000-1499 ILS |
| 4 | 1500-1999 ILS |
| 5 | 2000-2499 ILS |
| 6 | 2500-2999 ILS |
| 7 | 3000-3999 ILS |
| 8 | 4000-4999 ILS |
| 9 | 5000-5999 ILS |
| 10 | 6000-6999 ILS |
| 11 | 7000-7999 ILS |
| 12 | 8000-8999 ILS |
| 13 | 9000-9999 ILS |
| 14 | 10000-10999 ILS |
| 15 | 11000-11999 ILS |
| 16 | 12000-13999 ILS |
| 17 | 14000-15999 ILS |
| 18 | 18000-19999 ILS |
| 19 | 20000-24999 ILS |
| 21 | 25000 + ILS |
| 98 | Unknown |
| 99 | NIU (not in universe) |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
29. Question 34
34. What was your gross income (before deductions) from your salary, in September 1995?
[] If you did not have salary, mark an x and go to 36.
Include all payments from all workplaces you have worked in.
Please, copy your gross income from the paycheck.
Write the sum in whole Israeli Shekels.
Gross _ _ _ _ _ _ IS
Net (If the gross income is not known) _ _ _ _ _ _ IS
29.1 Gross income from salary
Gross income from salary includes all the payments the worker received from his work as an employee for the month of September.
Gross income includes the basic payments and all the extra payments, like: payments for extra hours, premium, 13th month salary, payment for recreation time, clothing, board and lodging, payments for car maintenance etc.
Gross income is the income before deductions of revenue taxes, National Security [Social Security], health insurance, payments to insurance funds, pension and compensation funds, to return a loan or any other deduction from the salary.
The gross income is important since it is uniform [in its components] and is not influenced by random deduction in one month or another, or from deductions related to the personal status of the worker (like: place of residence [along the borders and in developing towns the taxes are lower], number of children, loans, savings etc.).
29.2 Net income from salary
Only if there is no way to get the gross income, write the net income.
Net income is the sum remains after the deduction of income tax and social security from the gross income, and before the deduction of all other payments.
29.3 Additional explanations to question 34
A. A person who did not work as an employee in September has to answer question 34 too. He has to mark an x in the box on the left, and to go to question 36.
[p. 70]
B. In order to avoid errors, the employees are asked to copy the gross income from their paycheck.
C. Those who were absent from work on September, because of illness, vacation, reserve duty, accident etc, are to include in the gross income the payments received for the time of absence, from the employer or from other sources.
D. A person who worked as an employee in several workplaces in September has to sum up all the gross income received from all workplaces.
E. If on September, a person had an income from work as an employee and as a self-employed, he will write his income as an employee in this question (question 34) and his income as a self-employed in question 36.
F. Cooperative members will include in this question their income from work as employees and also their income from the cooperative revenues.
G. If the employee does not get a paycheck, and gets his salary in cash, he has to write it as a net income.
H. If on October, the person has not received his salary for the month of September, he has to write the salary paid for August.
29.4 How to write [the answer]
Write the income from right to left, in whole Israeli Shekels (without the Agorot).
Examples: 1. Income of 3,200.35 IS, Write: [Illustration]
[p. 71]
30. Question 35
35. For how many work days were you paid in the month of September 1995?
[] 1 For the whole month
[] 2 For part of the month
for _ _ days.
30.1 For the whole month
A person who received a full salary will mark the "for the whole month" answer, even if he was absent from work because of a holiday, reserve duty, sickness or any other reason.
A person who is usually employed part time, who received the full usual salary, will mark this answer too.
30.2 For part of the month
A person, whose salary for September was not a full salary, will mark an X in the box and will write the number of days he was paid for.
30.3 More than one workplace
A person, who received an income on a monthly basis and worked in more than one workplace, will refer to the main workplace, for example:
A person, who received a salary for the whole month from his main workplace, and also received a salary for part of the month from additional workplace, will mark an X in answer number 1: "For the whole month".
30.4 Daily pay
A person, who received an income on a daily basis and worked in more than one workplace (or changed his workplace in September), will sum-up the number of days he was paid for.
If he received a salary for the whole month, he will mark an X in answer 1.
If he received a salary for part of the month, he will mark an X in answer 2 and will write the number of days he was paid for.
32. Question 36
36. What was your gross income from your work as self-employed or as a farm owner?
Please include withdrawals from the business for private purposes and for individual taxes like income tax and National Security payments.
A. Gross income in September 1995.
_ _ _ _ _ _ IS
[] If you had no income, mark an X.
B. Gross income in 1994.
_ _ _ _ _ _ IS
[] If you had no income, mark an X.
32.1 Gross income from work as self-employed
It means the revenues of the business after deducting the current expenditures for the maintenance of the business (like materials, wages, rent for the building) and before the deduction of individual taxes like income tax, social security, and health insurance.
Revenue is what the business is paid for the products or services it sells.
Include in the gross income of self-employed the payments received from the National Security Institute like maternity allowance, reserve duty payment, accident insurance payment, workers' compensation and payments from other insurance funds.
32.2 Additional explanations to question 36
A. Mark an X in each of the boxes on the left, if there was no income as self-employed:
1. In September 1995 (for the month of September)
2. For the year of 1994.
B. If a business belongs to several partners, write the respondent's part only.
C. If a person had an income as self employed only in part of 1994, write this income.
D. If a person had an income in 1994, but in 1995 he is not working as self-employed (He is not working, or he works as an employee), write the income in 1994.
[p. 73]
E. If there were losses in September 1995, or in all 1994, write the number "0".
F. If a person works as self-employed and as an employee, he has to write his income from work as self-employed in this question (question 36) and his income as an employee in question 34.
34. Question 37
37. Did you receive any National Security annuities in September 1995?
A joint annuity (like a couple's joint old-age pension, children annuity) should be written in the questionnaire of ONE person only.
Please answer all parts.
A. National Security children's pay
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
B. National Security old age pension
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
C. Other National Security annuities
(Like survivors' allowance, unemployment, general disability)
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
A. A person who does not have income not derived from work has to answer these questions too. He has to mark an X in the boxes under the title NO.
B. A person who has income not derived from work, has to mark an X in the boxes titled YES and to write the annuities sums [This instruction is erroneous. No figures were asked for in this question. They were added by the means of cold-deck imputation from the Social Security files, after the census].
34.1 Children's pay
This annuity is paid for all the children to a single bank account.
Write this annuity only once in the questionnaire of one of the parents.
34.2 Old age pension
This annuity can be paid to one person in the household or separately, to several people in the household. Old age pension from the Social Security can also be paid for a couple, together.
[p. 74]
- If the annuity was paid separately, write the amount in the questionnaire of the receiving person only.
- If the annuity is paid for a couple, write the whole amount in the questionnaire of one of the couple only.
34.3 Other annuities
It means annuities like survivors' allowance, unemployment pay, disability allowance etc.
The annuities referred to in this question are those paid by the National Security only.
35. Question 38
38. Did you have income, in September 1995, from the following sources?
Joint income (like income from property) is to be written in a questionnaire of one person only.
Please answer all the parts.
A. Pension from a place of work in Israel or from Kupat Tagmulim [compensation fund]
[] 1 Yes: Sum in IS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2 No
B. Pension or reparation from abroad
[] 1 Yes: Sum in IS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2 No
C. Other regular income from sources other than work
Like: Allowance from the Defense Ministry,
apartment rent, absorption basket [for new immigrants]
scholarships, income of a soldier in a compulsory service.
[] 1 Yes: Sum in IS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2 No
A. A person who received an income [annuity] for the month of September will mark an X under YES and will write the amount next to it, from right to left. A person, who did not get an income for September, will mark an X under NO.
B. If the income is regular and received each month, but accidentally it was not paid for September -- write the amount paid for August 1995.
A joint income for several people in the household (like property income), should be written in the questionnaire of one person only.
35.1 Pension in Israel
It means a regular pay a person gets from the workplace he has worked in, in the past, or from a compensation fund he has saved in.
35.2 Pension and rent from abroad
Pension from abroad: like an old age pension from the USA.
Rent from abroad: It is usually people who migrated from Germany and other countries who receive a monthly allowance from the government of Germany.
35.3 Other income
It means a regular income like an allowance from the Defense Ministry, apartment rent, absorption basket [for new immigrants], scholarships, and income of a soldier in a compulsory service.
Do not include income received only once, like: reparation, heritage, sweepstake etc.
34. What was your gross income (before deductions) from your salary, in September 1995?
[] If you did not have salary, mark an x and go to 36.
Include all payments from all workplaces you have worked in.
Please, copy your gross income from the paycheck.
Write the sum in whole Israeli Shekels.
Gross _ _ _ _ _ _ IS
Net (If the gross income is not known) _ _ _ _ _ _ IS
29.1 Gross income from salary
Gross income from salary includes all the payments the worker received from his work as an employee for the month of September.
Gross income includes the basic payments and all the extra payments, like: payments for extra hours, premium, 13th month salary, payment for recreation time, clothing, board and lodging, payments for car maintenance etc.
Gross income is the income before deductions of revenue taxes, National Security [Social Security], health insurance, payments to insurance funds, pension and compensation funds, to return a loan or any other deduction from the salary.
The gross income is important since it is uniform [in its components] and is not influenced by random deduction in one month or another, or from deductions related to the personal status of the worker (like: place of residence [along the borders and in developing towns the taxes are lower], number of children, loans, savings etc.).
29.2 Net income from salary
Only if there is no way to get the gross income, write the net income.
Net income is the sum remains after the deduction of income tax and social security from the gross income, and before the deduction of all other payments.
29.3 Additional explanations to question 34
A. A person who did not work as an employee in September has to answer question 34 too. He has to mark an x in the box on the left, and to go to question 36.
[p. 70]
B. In order to avoid errors, the employees are asked to copy the gross income from their paycheck.
C. Those who were absent from work on September, because of illness, vacation, reserve duty, accident etc, are to include in the gross income the payments received for the time of absence, from the employer or from other sources.
D. A person who worked as an employee in several workplaces in September has to sum up all the gross income received from all workplaces.
E. If on September, a person had an income from work as an employee and as a self-employed, he will write his income as an employee in this question (question 34) and his income as a self-employed in question 36.
F. Cooperative members will include in this question their income from work as employees and also their income from the cooperative revenues.
G. If the employee does not get a paycheck, and gets his salary in cash, he has to write it as a net income.
H. If on October, the person has not received his salary for the month of September, he has to write the salary paid for August.
29.4 How to write [the answer]
Write the income from right to left, in whole Israeli Shekels (without the Agorot).
Examples: 1. Income of 3,200.35 IS, Write: [Illustration]
[p. 71]
30. Question 35
35. For how many work days were you paid in the month of September 1995?
[] 1 For the whole month
[] 2 For part of the month
for _ _ days.
30.1 For the whole month
A person who received a full salary will mark the "for the whole month" answer, even if he was absent from work because of a holiday, reserve duty, sickness or any other reason.
A person who is usually employed part time, who received the full usual salary, will mark this answer too.
30.2 For part of the month
A person, whose salary for September was not a full salary, will mark an X in the box and will write the number of days he was paid for.
30.3 More than one workplace
A person, who received an income on a monthly basis and worked in more than one workplace, will refer to the main workplace, for example:
A person, who received a salary for the whole month from his main workplace, and also received a salary for part of the month from additional workplace, will mark an X in answer number 1: "For the whole month".
30.4 Daily pay
A person, who received an income on a daily basis and worked in more than one workplace (or changed his workplace in September), will sum-up the number of days he was paid for.
If he received a salary for the whole month, he will mark an X in answer 1.
If he received a salary for part of the month, he will mark an X in answer 2 and will write the number of days he was paid for.
32. Question 36
36. What was your gross income from your work as self-employed or as a farm owner?
Please include withdrawals from the business for private purposes and for individual taxes like income tax and National Security payments.
A. Gross income in September 1995.
_ _ _ _ _ _ IS
[] If you had no income, mark an X.
B. Gross income in 1994.
_ _ _ _ _ _ IS
[] If you had no income, mark an X.
32.1 Gross income from work as self-employed
It means the revenues of the business after deducting the current expenditures for the maintenance of the business (like materials, wages, rent for the building) and before the deduction of individual taxes like income tax, social security, and health insurance.
Revenue is what the business is paid for the products or services it sells.
Include in the gross income of self-employed the payments received from the National Security Institute like maternity allowance, reserve duty payment, accident insurance payment, workers' compensation and payments from other insurance funds.
32.2 Additional explanations to question 36
A. Mark an X in each of the boxes on the left, if there was no income as self-employed:
1. In September 1995 (for the month of September)
2. For the year of 1994.
B. If a business belongs to several partners, write the respondent's part only.
C. If a person had an income as self employed only in part of 1994, write this income.
D. If a person had an income in 1994, but in 1995 he is not working as self-employed (He is not working, or he works as an employee), write the income in 1994.
[p. 73]
E. If there were losses in September 1995, or in all 1994, write the number "0".
F. If a person works as self-employed and as an employee, he has to write his income from work as self-employed in this question (question 36) and his income as an employee in question 34.
34. Question 37
37. Did you receive any National Security annuities in September 1995?
A joint annuity (like a couple's joint old-age pension, children annuity) should be written in the questionnaire of ONE person only.
Please answer all parts.
A. National Security children's pay
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
B. National Security old age pension
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
C. Other National Security annuities
(Like survivors' allowance, unemployment, general disability)
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
A. A person who does not have income not derived from work has to answer these questions too. He has to mark an X in the boxes under the title NO.
B. A person who has income not derived from work, has to mark an X in the boxes titled YES and to write the annuities sums [This instruction is erroneous. No figures were asked for in this question. They were added by the means of cold-deck imputation from the Social Security files, after the census].
34.1 Children's pay
This annuity is paid for all the children to a single bank account.
Write this annuity only once in the questionnaire of one of the parents.
34.2 Old age pension
This annuity can be paid to one person in the household or separately, to several people in the household. Old age pension from the Social Security can also be paid for a couple, together.
[p. 74]
- If the annuity was paid separately, write the amount in the questionnaire of the receiving person only.
- If the annuity is paid for a couple, write the whole amount in the questionnaire of one of the couple only.
34.3 Other annuities
It means annuities like survivors' allowance, unemployment pay, disability allowance etc.
The annuities referred to in this question are those paid by the National Security only.
35. Question 38
38. Did you have income, in September 1995, from the following sources?
Joint income (like income from property) is to be written in a questionnaire of one person only.
Please answer all the parts.
A. Pension from a place of work in Israel or from Kupat Tagmulim [compensation fund]
[] 1 Yes: Sum in IS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2 No
B. Pension or reparation from abroad
[] 1 Yes: Sum in IS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2 No
C. Other regular income from sources other than work
Like: Allowance from the Defense Ministry,
apartment rent, absorption basket [for new immigrants]
scholarships, income of a soldier in a compulsory service.
[] 1 Yes: Sum in IS _ _ _ _ _
[] 2 No
A. A person who received an income [annuity] for the month of September will mark an X under YES and will write the amount next to it, from right to left. A person, who did not get an income for September, will mark an X under NO.
B. If the income is regular and received each month, but accidentally it was not paid for September -- write the amount paid for August 1995.
A joint income for several people in the household (like property income), should be written in the questionnaire of one person only.
35.1 Pension in Israel
It means a regular pay a person gets from the workplace he has worked in, in the past, or from a compensation fund he has saved in.
35.2 Pension and rent from abroad
Pension from abroad: like an old age pension from the USA.
Rent from abroad: It is usually people who migrated from Germany and other countries who receive a monthly allowance from the government of Germany.
35.3 Other income
It means a regular income like an allowance from the Defense Ministry, apartment rent, absorption basket [for new immigrants], scholarships, and income of a soldier in a compulsory service.
Do not include income received only once, like: reparation, heritage, sweepstake etc.
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the total household income, including gross income from salaried work, gross income from self employed work, total gross income from national insurance and total gross income other than from work for the month of September 1995. Although the questionnaire indicates the question was asked to people ages 15+, when a value was reported, all individuals of a household have the same amount. The Unknown category refers to cases when at least one allowance was unknown; if the data are missing or partial the variable was classified as "Unknown".
Universe
Ordinary non-Kibbutz households
concept
Concept
| Name | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Income Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |