Israelis are more technologically connected, work longer hours and are more educated than they were a decade ago, according to a recently released report of Israel’s 2008 population census.
The average Israeli has 2.1 mobile phones, according to the report. Some 71 percent of Israeli households have personal computers and nearly 91 percent of those households have an Internet connection. In 1995, 27 percent of Israeli households had a personal computer.
In 2008, 26 percent of Israeli families lived in rented homes and 66 percent owned their residences.
About 10 percent of the population is 4 or younger; those 85 and older make up 1 percent of males and 1.5 percent of females.
The average workweek for Israelis in 2008 was 40.5 hours — 45.2 hours for men and 35.5 hours for women. In 2008, about 10 percent of Israelis had spent fewer than eight years in school, 47 percent had spent nine to 12 years in school, 21 percent had spent 13 to 15 years in school and 21 percent had more than 16 years of formal education.
Roughly 29 percent of Jews in Israel were born abroad, according to the 2008 census, compared with 62 percent in 1961 and 42 percent in 1983.
The Central Bureau of Statistics’ 2008 census included visits to 400,000 Israeli households and a telephone survey of 250,000 individuals. Previous censuses were conducted in 1961, 1972, 1983 and 1995. — jta