Data Sets
Economics
- Government Expenditure 2010 (45.1kb)
- Development Budget 2010 (38.4kb)
Education
- Expenditure on Education 2010 (40.4kb)
Health
- Expenditure on Health 2010 (42kb)
Social Welfare
- Social Services Expenditures 2010 (54.3kb)
- Social Services Expenditure by Main Component 2010 (48.1kb)
- Per Capita Social Service Expenditure 2010 (52.7kb)
- Social Services Expenditures by Main Component in Percent 2010 (54.3kb)
- Income Support Expenditure 2010 (50.7kb)
About the datasets
Definitions
Government expenditure on social services includes all expenditure by government ministries and agencies and by the National Insurance Institute for education, health, income support, welfare (personal social services), housing, employment, and immigrant integration. The analysis in this book includes all expenditure implemented through the current budget (current expenditure) and the development budget (investment). Government expenditure is treated in net terms, i.e., total expenditure less earmarked revenue from outside agencies (such as co-payments from recipients of services).
The analysis refers to total government expenditure on services provided in-kind by the government (public consumption) and on subsidies and transfers to other economic sectors, such as National Insurance allowances, government support of non-governmental health institutions and support of non-governmental schools. Thus, the data reflect the activity of the government as a funding agent for the various social services, irrespective of the agency that delivers them.
The financial data pertain to fiscal years that correspond to calendar years (January-December).[1]
Data are shown in constant 2008 prices. The absolute figures were deflated by the Consumer Price Index or by an implicit price index for Civilian Public Consumption, as the case may be. Investment expenditure, implemented through the development budget was deflated by the Construction Inputs Price Index.
Classification of Social Expenditures
Social service expenditures were classified functionally by main fields (education, health, etc.) irrespective of the agency that delivers the service. This classification is different from that used conventionally in the state budget and the annual reports of the Accountant General, which categorize expenditures by administrative units (e.g., ministries and departments). Below is a detailed list of items included in each field.
Education: Education expenditure includes outlays by the Ministry of Education for school systems (preschool, primary, post-primary, post-secondary), general expenses for the education system, government participation in higher education budgets, and government expenditure for vocational training (Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor). Transfers to post-primary schools from education levy receipts were also included until this was abolished in 1987.
Health: Health expenditure includes outlays of the Ministry of Health for health services (general inpatient, long-term, and psychiatric care; vocational training; public health services; government participation in the funding of National Health Insurance; and transfer payments to public medical institutions), including Defense Ministry participation in the Health Ministry budget. The health expenditures of the National Insurance Institute (inpatient maternity care, medical care for work accidents, health outlays under the Long-Term Care Insurance Law, and transfers to the health funds from Parallel Tax receipts until this tax was abolished in 1997) are also included as well as the health expenditure of the Unit for Care of Victims of Nazi Persecution. To facilitate comparison with previous years’ data, the health tax that citizens pay through the State Health Insurance Law is treated as a substitute for the sick fund dues that households remitted directly to the sick funds in earlier years and thus not considered here government expenditure.
Income support: Income support expenditure includes all transfers from the National Insurance Institute (with the exception of reserve duty compensation and lines explicitly included in other social service fields) and benefits for victims of Nazi persecution.
Other social services: This item includes government outlays for personal social services (expenditure by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services for the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the mentally disabled; community work; and, most expenditure by the National Insurance Institute on account of the Long-Term Care Insurance Law); housing (expenditure by the Ministry of Construction and Housing); employment (expenditure by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor for labor relations, personnel planning and referral, and occupational safety); and immigrant integration (expenditure by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption).
Sources
The data on government expenditure for social services are based on the government’s financial statements, prepared by the Accountant General of the Finance Ministry (the 2010 data are budget data updated to the time the report was prepared), and on the Statistical Quarterlies of the National Insurance Institute (the 2009 data are estimates of final expenditure, as prepared by the Research and Planning Division of the National Insurance Institute). The explanatory notes attached to the state budget and the Bank of Israel Annual Report for the years at issue were also used. To compute real expenditure, the appropriate price indexes supplied by the Central Bureau of Statistics were used.
A detailed list of the sources of data:
Bank of Israel, Report of the Bank of Israel, various years.
Central Bureau of Statistics, Statistical Abstract of Israel, various years.
— Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, various periods.
—Price Statistics Monthly, various periods.
Ministry of Finance, Budget Proposal and Explanatory Notes, various years.
— The Accountant General, Financial Statements, various years.National Insurance Institute, Annual Survey, various years.
— Quarterly Statistics, various periods.
— Working Budget and Explanatory Notes, various years.
State Comptroller, Annual Report, Jerusalem, various years.
Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, Israel’s Social Services, Jerusalem, various years.
[1] Until 1990, the fiscal year began in April of the year at issue and ended at the end of the following March. For the transition period – fiscal 1991 – a nine-month budget (April-December) was approved. To facilitate comparison with data from previous years, the 1991 budget expenditure was “translated” into full-year terms by linear extrapolation.