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Census of Population and Housing 1983 - IPUMS Subset

Israel, 1983
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ISR_1983_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Bureau of Statistics - Israel, Minnesota Population Center
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Status at work (IL1983A_0442)

Data file: ISR1983-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 213
End: 213
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Questions 1-28 were asked of household members aged 15 years or older]



[Work]
[Questions 14-23]



[Questions 17-23 were asked of persons age 15+ who did not serve in professional army last week, per question 14]




[Questions 18-23 were asked of persons age 15+ who did not serve in professional army last week, per question 14, but worked in Israel during the previous 12 months, per question 17]




21. What is your employment status at this work place?

[] 1 Salaried or wage-earning employee
[] 2 Self-employed, employing no workers
[] 3 Self-employed, employing 1-2 workers
[] 4 Self-employed, employing 3 or more workers
[] 5 Member of cooperative
[] 6 Member of Kibbutz (not a wage worker or salaried employee)
[] 7 Family member working without pay in family business or farm
Categories
Value Category
1 Salaried worker
2 Self-employed with no salaried workers
3 Self-employed with 1-2 salaried workers
4 Self-employed with 3+ salaried workers
5 Member of cooperative
6 Kibbutz member (not salaried worker)
7 Unpaid family member in family business
8 Unknown
9 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
25. Question 21 -- explanations: Status on the Job

[Instructions refer to a graphic of the census form including question 20.]

"Status on the job", means salaried employee, self-employed, etc. and not "temporary"/"permanent".

Salaried employee -- is a person working for someone in return for a daily/monthly/per job wage or for some other return. Also regarded as salaried employees are:


A person working in a cooperative and receiving a salary only (meaning, he/she is not a member of the cooperative).

An apprentice receiving wage

A yeshiva student aged 18 and over, occupied as a teacher in the yeshiva.

A pupil in an agricultural school, or a vocational school, receiving wage.

A citizen working for the army

A housekeeper, nanny etc.


[p. 37]


Self-employed not employing salaried employees includes also:


A person working in a business/farm of his/her own and not employing others for wage or any other returns.

An active partner in a business not employing others.

A person employing workers without pay or return (such as: a person employing family members in his/her business/farm without pay).

A private teacher.



Self-employed employing salaried employees:
Considered as self-employed employing salaried employees is a person employing others for wage or any other return. Including:


An active partner in a business employing salaried employees.

The owner of a farm employing a worker for wage

A craftsman employing an apprentice



Member of cooperative: Considered as member of cooperative is an employee sharing the cooperative profits on top of his/her salary. A member of a communal Moshav will also be considered as member of a cooperative.

Member of kibbutz


Including:
Kibbutz members and their sons/daughters; parents and relatives of kibbutz members, living in the kibbutz and working in it; candidates for membership in the kibbutz; members of groups planning to establish or join a kibbutz and teenagers living in the kibbutz and working in it; kibbutz members working outside their kibbutz without receiving pay from their workplace.

Not including:


1. Kibbutz members working outside the kibbutz for wage.

2. Persons who are not kibbutz members but live in the kibbutz and work in it for wage

3. persons studying Hebrew in a kibbutz
4. Volunteers in the kibbutz.


Family member working without pay in the family business/farm: A son working for his father or a woman working for her husband, in a farm or business, without receiving payment.
For example: a woman helping her husband in a grocery store or a son helping his father in his workshop -- without receiving pay.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's status at work.
Universe
Persons age 15+ in annual labor force

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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