Income
[Questions 71-81 asked only once per household]
71. In December, did you have an income from a pension fund from your workplace in the country or from a benevolent fund?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No (Go to Question No. 74)
72. Which of the household members received the pension or benevolent fund? ____
73. What was the sum of your income from a pension or benevolent fund? ____
The question is asked for each person chosen in the previous question.
74. In December, did you have an income from abroad from a pension or German reparations?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No (Go to Question No. 78)
75. Which of the household members received the pension or German reparations from abroad? ____
76. What was the sum of your income from a foreign pension or German reparations? ____
The question is asked for each person chosen in the previous question.
77. Indicate the type of currency of the pension from abroad
[] 1 NIS
[] 2 American dollar
[] 3 Euro
[] 4 Other
78. In December, did you have any other permanent income not from work (not including National Insurance Institute allowances)?
For example, an allowance from the Ministry of Defense, income from a rented dwelling, scholarships, income from a soldier on compulsory military service
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No (Go to Question No. 82)
79. Which of the household members received the income? ____
80. What was the sum of your income? ____
The question is asked for each person chosen in the previous question.
81. Indicate the type of currency of the other income
[] 1 NIS
[] 2 American dollar
[] 3 Euro
[] 4 Other
Part I: Incomes
3. Instructions for answering questions
a. Income from pensions or provident funds from a workplace in Israel
The question examines whether the household had any income from a pension or a provident fund from a workplace in Israel. If so, ask which household member received the pension and what the sum of the pension was. If the respondent does not know which household member received the pension, ask for the sum of the total amount of pensions received by the household.
Question 9.90 - Did you have any income from pensions or provident funds from a workplace in Israel, in the month of December?
Question 9.100 - Which of you received the pension or the provident fund money?
Question 9.110 - How high was the income from the pension or provident fund?
Question 9.110.1 - What was the total sum of your income from pensions or provident funds?
- In this question, only refer to pensions received from a workplace in Israel.
- Write the sum received in December 2008. If there usually is a pension, but for various reasons, this month only, it was not received, write the sum received in the previous month.
- Also include pension-track executives' insurance.
In all questions concerning the sum of the income in this part (pension from Israel, pension from abroad and other incomes), refer to the gross income.
b. Income from pensions or benefits from abroad
The series of question on this topic is similar to the questions in paragraph a, but refers to incomes from pensions or benefits from abroad.
Question 9.120 - Did you have any income from pensions or benefits from abroad, in the month of December?
Question 9.140.1 - Enumerator, please note: indicate the currency in which the pension or benefit was received.- A pension from abroad is paid to people who worked abroad, but currently live in Israel and receive a pension from their workplace abroad.
- A person who received a pension outside Israel shall be asked what currency he received his pension in.
c. Other regular incomes from sources other than work
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Other regular incomes - regular incomes from sources other than work, which are not from Social Security and were not included in the other questions (incomes from pensions, provident funds and German benefits).
- There may be cases where a person says that the additional income which is not from work is a joint income. In this case, write it under one person only. For example: income from rent which is received as a joint income of the couple - only write it under one person.
- The series of questions on this topic is similar to the questions in paragraph b.
Question 9.160 - Did you have any other regular incomes from sources other than work, in the month of December? (Excluding Social Security benefits)- Examples of regular incomes from sources other than work: income from renting out an apartment, benefit from the Ministry of Defense, financial assistance to new immigrants, scholarships, income of a soldier in mandatory service, payments from an education fund for sabbaticals of teachers, professors and researchers, dividends of shareholders in a public company (paid once a year).
- 'Regular incomes' do not include one-time incomes such as: compensations, inheritance, lottery win, a savings account or fund that was redeemed (such as an education fund which is redeemed every six years), any other sum which is received on a one-time basis.