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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

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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.

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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.