List of variables in book_lfs.dta

NAME		LABEL
sex		Sex
schooling	Years of schooling
lf_char		Weekly characteristics of labour force (old until 1994, new from 1995)
weight		Weight
age		Age (until 1994 21 is 18-24. in 1995 75 is 75+. in 1996-2007 85 is 85+)
occ1dold	Occupation, OLD classification, 1 digit (until 1994)
immigy		Year of immigration, missing is unknown (In 2004, 1919 is 1919 and before)
year		Year of survey
lf_char_old	Weekly characteristics of labour force (old from 1995 until 1997)
occ1dnew	Occupation, NEW classification, 1 digit (from 1995)
origin		Country/Continent of birth
age_immig	Age on immigration (incorrect for grouped and top coded ages and years of immigration)
marital		Marital status

Value labels:
sex
           1 male
           2 female
           9 error
lf_char, lf_char_old
           1 Full-time employment
           2 Part-time employment
           3 Absent from work
           4 Unemployed-worked during last 12 months
           5 Unemployed-did not work last 12 months
           6 Non-member of labour force
age
           0 <= 14
occ1dold
           0 Scientific and Academic Professionals
           1 Other Free Professionals, Technicians etc
           2 Managers
           3 Clerks
           4 Sales Workers, Agents etc
           5 Service Workers
           6 Farm Workers
           7 Skilled Workers in Industry, Transportation and Construction
           9 Unskilled Workers in Industry, Transportation and Construction
immigy
        9000 Israeli born
        9999 Non-Jewish or Arab
occ1dnew
           0 Academic Professionals
           1 Associate Professionals and Technicians
           2 Managers
           3 Clerical Workers
           4 Agents, Sales Workers and Service Workers
           5 Skilled Agricultural Workers
           6 Industry, Construction and Other Skilled Workers
           9 Unskilled Workers
origin
           1 Asia
           2 Africa
           3 Europe
           4 America/Oceania
           5 Israel, father in Asia
           6 Israel, father in Africa
           7 Israel, father in Europe
           8 Israel, father in America/Oceania
           9 Israel, father in Israel
          10 Israel, father Unknown
          11 Unknown
          12 Non Jews
          13 FSU
          14 Israel, father in FSU
marital
           1 Married
           2 Divorced
           3 Widowed
           4 Single
           5 Married, living separately
           6 Error

Note:
Labor force survey data was provided by the Israel Social Science Data Center (ISDC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The file was created by appending all years from 1989 until 2009.
Occupation, country of birth and marital status were re-coded to create consistent codes across years. 
Number of observations is 2,155,140.
For a full description of the survey and variables see http://isdc.huji.ac.il/ehold9.shtml.