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]
17. How many weeks did you work in Israel in all your places of employment during the last 12 months (not including professional or compulsory army service)?
A work week is a week during which you worked even one day, or during which you worked part-time. Include also those weeks during which you were absent with pay because of vacation, sick leave, maternity leave and army reserve duty.
[] 00 Did not work at all in Israel during the previous 12 months: Circle and skip to 24
[] 52 Worked in Israel during all of the past 12 months
[] If worked in Israel less than all of the past 12 months, report number of weeks worked in Israel _ _
Interviewer instructions
17. Definition of "work"
"Work" means any work, full or partial in exchange for salary, profit or any other return. Including also:
A person's work in his/her own business.
The work of a family member in a family business or farm, even without pay
Considered as worker is a person that worked (according to the definition in this clause) even one hour in the past week.
Also considered as work:
Work of an apprentice/trainee -- even if worked without pay
Work of a pupil in agricultural school
Yeshiva student aged 18 and over, engaged in teaching in the yeshiva.
Work of apprentices, for pay as part of vocational course.
Work of a pupil in a kibbutz -- not as part of school/national service.
Work in hospital of a student in nurse school.
Work as part of "service year" by religious girls (instead of military service).
Work of students or pupils giving private lessons or working as babysitters for pay.
Notice!
Work of students serving as tutors will also be considered as work.
A nanny/housekeeper receiving wage or sleeping arrangements, support and allowance for her work.
A woman taking care of children as part of a foster family. If both spouses are taking care of the children and have no other job -- refer only to the wife as working and the husband should be registered as "not working".
Civilian working for the IDF.
The work of air crews on civilian aircraft and seamen aboard civilian ships.
Work abroad of Israelis staying outside the country for less than a year, whether they are salaried employees of a governmental/public institute or factory in Israel, or self-employed, staying abroad (less than a year) for the purpose of their business in Israel.
Persons sent for general training/study -- not occupational by their workplace, for a period of up to one week. If the study lasts more than a week -- the employees will be considered absent from their job.
Persons sent on occupational training by their workplace-- even for a period of more than a week.
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Activities not considered as "work" for the purpose of these questions:
Work of a housekeeper in her home.
Regular/reserve army service.
Notice!
Regular service in the border-guard is considered work in the police, not the army.
Volunteer work -- without receiving pay
Work of pupils in vocational school (except agricultural school).
Work abroad of Israelis staying outside the country for less than a year, but more than 30 days, which is not for a governmental/public institute or factory in Israel, or: the work of a self-employed for a business abroad. For example: an Israeli working abroad as a salesman for a Japanese company or an Israeli running a night-club abroad.
Inactive partnership in a foreign business/factory -- abroad.
21. Question 17 -- explanations: Number of work weeks in the past year
[Instructions refer to a graphic of the census form including question 17.]
The purpose of the question -- to check the scope of work in a period of one year: the last 12 months.
A. For whoever did not work at all in the past 12 months or whoever worked abroad -- but not in Israel -- circle "00".
B. For whoever worked during all of the last 12 months, circle "52" -- for work during the 52 weeks in a year.
If a person did not work several weeks, due to army reserve service, holiday, etc -- mark he/she worked during all months of the year.
C. For whoever worked less than 12 months (in Israel), write in the squares the number of weeks worked (in Israel) during this period.
To simplify the calculation of weeks, subtract the number of weeks not worked from the 52 weeks of a year.
For example: if a person specified he/she did not work for 9 weeks: subtract this number from the total weeks in a year (52-9=43) and write 43 in the squares.
Notice!
For a soldier in compulsory service who worked - during the past year - prior to his/her enlistment, write the number of weeks worked during that period. Also, he/she must answer the following questions regarding the work place.
