43. Have you studied in the past, or are you studying today, in a school (educational institution)?
School also includes university, evening school, courses of at least one academic year, Yeshiva or Kollel.

44. How many years did you study in all schools (educational institutions)? ____

45. In which of the following schools did you study?

Introduction
This part of the questionnaire deals with the subject of education. The goal of the questions is to receive information on the population's education level and type of education.
The data received will allow us to study, among other things, the distribution of different population groups according to people's number of schooling years in different types of schools (high school, post-secondary school or higher education), how many of them received matriculation certificates, how many received other diplomas, and the number of academics in Israel. The data allows us to analyze the relations between education and people's occupations, or between education and housing conditions, etc.
In addition, the data is used for assessing the population's education resources and for planning education services, such as frameworks for professional studies, adult education, etc.
All questions in this part are addressed at persons aged 15 or more.

2. Instructions for answering questions

b. Number of schooling years
The information on the number of schooling years assists in the study of the population's education level.

- If the respondent is currently in school, include the current school year in the count - even if it is the beginning of the school year.
- Concerning past studies - only include schooling years that the respondent actually completed. For example: You are told that the respondent studied in the past for a year and 7 months in a vocational training course. You need to find out whether the course's length was a year and 7 months (and then count it as two years of schooling), or if the course was longer and the respondent terminated his studies before their end and then count it as one year only).
- Only refer to the actual years of studies and not to the planned years of studies.
Include all schooling years in any type of school, even if there were intervals between them. For example: The respondent studied toward a bachelor's degree at the Hebrew University for one year. At the end of the first year he stopped his studies in order to work. At the end of the year of working he returned and completed another two years toward the degree. In this case, type the entire sum of his years of study - 3.
- Include any schooling year, regardless of whether the studies were conducted during the day or the evening, in Israel or abroad.
- A 'schooling year' does not include: years of studies in frameworks which are not schools (academic institutions), schooling years which were not completed in the past, additional schooling years in the same grade in an elementary or high school.

c. School type
Information on school types allows us to examine different study tracks, according to characteristics of different groups. Therefore, this data allows us to follow the integration of graduates of certain tracks in various economic branches.

- In this question you must choose all of the school types where the person has studied.
- Before choosing the answer 'Other' - check if the type of school falls under one of the answers. If the school does not fall under one of the answers, choose the answer 'Other' and indicate the name of the school and the subject of studies.
- Examples of the different types of schools can be found in paragraph 3.a of this chapter.
- A lexicon of religious schooling institutions can be found in paragraph 3.a.1 of this chapter.