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.]
24. Over the last 12 months, how many months did you work in all places of employment (not including military service of any kind)?
[Question 24 was asked of persons age 15+ who were not in regular military service last week, per question 21]
A month's work is any month during which you worked at least one week. Please also include those months you were on paid leave because of a holiday, birth leave or reserve duty.
[] 1. I haven't worked in Israel at all during the last 12 months; please mark X and proceed to question 37 [skip questions 25-36]
[] 2. I have worked in Israel during the entire last 12 months.
[] 3. I have worked in Israel for less than 12 months. I have worked [specify how many] months: _ _
Interviewer instructions
12. 'Work' definition
Only civilian workers in the civilian or military sector are to supply details regarding their work.
Soldiers in a regular or compulsory service answer that they are serving in the IDF but they are not asked about their work in the army.
In the census questionnaire, work is any full time or part time work for a pay, profit, or any other compensation, and work without pay of a family member in the family business or farm.
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12.1 Activities considered as Work
The following activities are considered as work in the census questionnaire:
Students, trainees
-- Work of an apprentice or a trainee -- even if he works without pay;
-- Work of a student in an agricultural school;
-- Work of trainees for a pay, in a professional course;
-- Work of a student in a Kibbutz, not done in school or as a national service;
-- Work of a Yeshiva student, 18 years and over, who teaches in the Yeshiva;
-- Work in a hospital of a student in nurses' school;
-- Work of students as tutors.
Army, air-force, navy
-- Work of a religious girl in her Service-Year (An alternative service to military service);
-- Regular service on the Borders Guard, or work as a policeman in the police;
-- Work of a civilian worker in the military forces;
-- Work of aircrew members in civilian airplanes and of seamen in civilian ships.
Private lessons, babysitter, foster family
-- Providing private lessons for a pay;
-- Babysitting for a pay;
-- Work of a caretaker or a housekeeper who get paid or get accommodation, food and pocket money;
-- Taking care of children within a foster family. If a couple takes care of the children in this arrangement and they are not employed in any other work, only one of them has to be referred to as employed while the other will be considered as unemployed.
Courses
-- People who are sent by their workplace for a general or professional course, for up to one week.
Work abroad
-- Work of an Israeli who is abroad less than a year, and is employed by an Israeli institution, factory or business;
Examples: Embassy worker, worker of Keren Kayemett LeIsrael [Jewish National Fund], a worker of a construction company who is sent abroad to work in a construction project.
-- Work of a self-employed, who is abroad less than a year, for his business in Israel.
Example: An owner of a cloths shop who travels abroad to import merchandise.
Other work
-- Work of a prisoner in prison, not for the maintenance of the prison.
-- Civilian work of a soldier in a compulsory service, whose civilian work is in addition to his military service.
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12.2 Activities not considered as work
The following different activities are not to be marked as work in the census questionnaire:
A. Work of a housewife in her house;
B. Volunteering work -- without pay;
C. Work of a student in vocational high school, as part of studying (excluding agricultural school);
D. Work of an Israeli abroad who stays there less than a year and work for non-Israeli institution, factory or business.
E. Inactive partnership in a business or factory.
F. Work of an institution resident for the maintenance of the institution. For example: Work of a prisoner in the prison's kitchen.
16. Question 24
24. In the last 12 months, in how many months did you work in Israel, in all places of work (do not include compulsory or career military service)?
[] 1 I did not work in Israel in the last 12 months. Please mark an X and go to 37
[] 2 I worked in all 12 months in Israel.
[] 3 I worked less than 12 months
I worked [in] _ _ months.
16.1 What is a working month?
A working month is considered as such even if a person worked only one week (in a full or part time job).
Also include in the count of working months the months in which a person was absent from work with pay, because of a vacation, birth vacation, reserve duty or sickness.
Also include work of an Israeli who is abroad less than a year, who works for an Israeli institution, factory or business.
16.2 How to answer
A. Those who did not work at all during the last 12 months or were in a compulsory military service, or worked abroad for a non Israeli institution, factory or business -- will mark answer 1.
B. Those worked in all last 12 months will mark answer 2.
C. Answer 3 will be marked by those who worked in less than 12 months (during the last 12 months). In addition to the X mark, they have to write the number of months they worked in.
16.3 A soldier
A soldier who is less than 12 months in the compulsory service at the time of the census, who has worked before he was recruited (during the last 12 months) -- will write the number of months he worked in and will continue to the following questions regarding work.
