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New datasets received by ISDC goes through a procedure of checking, reformatting,
documenting and preparing a user-friendly product. However, this page describes only
few collections that got particular upgrading by the ISDC staff. Several data
collections comprise 5 or more datasets, which have been collected using the same
design and method. Although their data structure may not be similar, they have been
brought to the same format and use the same metadata. Other collections encompass time series, are
managed, updated and extended on a regular basis by ISDC.
Typical data collections are:
Israel Election Studies: 1969 - 2006
The aim of these studies is to investigate voting patterns, public opinion, and political participation in Israel. Their by-product is a high quality data collection that serves research needs of social scientists, teachers and students, who are concerned with the theoretical and empirical foundations of mass politics in Israel society. Since several questions have been repeatedly investigated throughout the last 34 years, these surveys formulate a unique source of information on public opinion trends and political behavior in Israel. Since 1969, Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, (who joint him later on) conduct these surveys previous to and sometimes also subsequent to, each elections to the Knesset and recently also to the Prime Minister. See list of Bibliography. Election studies design:
Each election study addresses a wide range of substantive themes including: expectations about the election outcome; perceptions and evaluations of the major parties and their candidates; information about politics; partisanship; assessments of the relative importance of major problems facing the country; attention to campaign coverage in the mass media (in recent studies); feelings of political efficacy; political values; conservatism vs. liberalism; trust in government; political participation; vote choice; economic well- being; positions on social welfare, economic, social, and civil rights issues; evaluations of political figures and groups; detailed demographic information; and measures of religious affiliation and religiosity. The collection includes both data and metadata files. The Hebrew questionnaires were translated and converted into variable names by the ISDC staff. Please note that the variable names are abbreviations rather than full translation of the questions' text. Images of the original questionnaires are included as well. So are SAS definition statements. The CD-Rom includes the following dictionaries:
1981-1995 Labor Force Surveys in Judea Samaria and Gaza This collection contains microdata of Labor Force Surveys in Judea, Samaria and Gaza area, performed by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics during 1981 - 1995. The main purpose of these surveys was to track labor force changes in the population aged 15 and over, according to various variables. The production of this data collection has been supported by Prof. Joshua Angrist, who also contributed the 1981-1991 data to the ISDC. 15 annual datasets are grouped into 3 data files:
Beside ASCII micro-data files, the collection includes a study description, a variable list and SAS statements for each dataset. Datasets 582 and 581 share the same format and variables list while all datasets share other parts of documentation: codebooks, appendix, the Standard Classifications of Occupations and Standard Classification of Industries. Also included are SAS data definition statements for reading the data.
Citations:
Directory Structure
Files have been assigned DOS-compatible names. Accordingly, each file name in the data directory has two parts: the name and the extension, separated by a period. File name extensions usually indicate the format in which a file is written, as follows:
Restrictions
Users in the ISDC member institutions will not distribute data or other materials supplied by the ISDC to other members, organizations, or to individuals at other institutions without a written permission from the ISDC. While copies of the files can be made locally accessible within research groups at member institutions, copies are not to be made for users at non-member institutions nor are copies to be taken to off-site locations for non-member activities. As with data provided on any other medium, the authorized user is responsible for the datasets he receives or purchase. Additional copies of this and other data collections may be ordered by contacting the ISDC office or website.
Acknowledgments
Economic Time Series for Israel (ETSI) ETSI, consisting of time series for several hundred variables of the Israel economy, has been developed as a tool for research rather than as a source for up-to-date intelligence on the Israeli economy. In this regard, it differs from its source databases. Bank of Israel economic database maintained by its research department, the majority of which is based on the Central Bureau of Statistics. ETSI is divided into sections such as National Accounts, Balance of Payments, Labour Market, and Monetary Sector, where annual time series have, as far as possible, common start dates in the early 1960's.
ETSI provides the underlying data rather than transformations of it. For example, it provides data on levels of variables rather than their rates of change, and it includes the underlying nominal data from which constant price aggregates are imputed. The database was initiated by Prof. Michael Beenstock of the Hebrew University, who had also built and contributed the housing market series for the years 1975-1995. all series, except the Housing Market workbook are updated every other year.
CENSUSES - Small Area Statistics Census of population and housing is a comprehensive source of demographic and socio-economic characteristics of individuals and households. The information generated from the data ranges from the national level to more specific profiles of small geographic units, which can not be obtained from sample surveys due to their poor representation of small areas. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics produces and publishes many figures on localities and on sub-divisions of large urban localities. ISDC acquires these outputs and produces further aggregates from the individual level dataset of the extended questionnaire. This was done on both 1995 and 1983 censuses.
Dataset 313: Small area statistics from 1983 census
Dataset 116: Small Area Statistics of 1995 census
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