Interviewer instructions
9. Question 9 -- explanations: (For the born abroad) year of immigration to Israel
[Instructions refer to a graphic of the census form including question 9.]
A. When a person does not remember the year of his/her immigration to Israel, but remembers how many years he/she is in Israel, use the table for converting number of years into date.
B. For a person who immigrated to Israel more than once and stayed abroad for less than ten years, write the year in which first immigrated.
For a person absent from Israel more than ten years, write the latter year of immigration (do not take into consideration visits in Israel, only the year of immigration).
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C. For a person who stayed in Israel as a "temporary resident" or tourist, left the country and then came back as an "immigrant" -- write the year in which came as an immigrant.
D. For a person who arrived in Israel as a "temporary resident" or tourist and after a while received the status of immigrant, write the year in which received "immigrant" status as the year of immigration.
E. A "potential new-immigrant" will be considered "immigrant" for the purpose of this question, meaning: the year in which arrived as a "potential new-immigrant" or the year in which turned from tourist/temporary resident into potential new-immigrant will be registered as year of immigration.
F. For a person who stayed in a detention camp in Cyprus and arrived in Israel after independence, write the year of arrival as year of immigration.
G. For tourists and temporary residents, staying in the country for more than a year, write the year of entrance into Israel as year of immigration.
Notice!
For the born abroad the questionnaire ends in this question -- move on to next person.
