{
  "title": "Israel: Flight tickets receive as gift",
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  "summary": "Israel: Flight tickets receive as gift <br />Informal Economy Reports Core Links Informal Economy Reports IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics <img src=\"-/media/F2F5903292514A448F11E984CA3F0233.",
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    {
      "heading": "Introduction",
      "content": "- Flight tickets received from abroad to an Israeli resident as gift are included under the secondary income."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Scope, Methodology, Compilation Practices, and Data Sources",
      "content": "- The estimation is based on three components which multiplied by each other:\n  - Percent of gifts- estimation from administrative data.\n  - Number of residents gets out of the border by air. The source of information is the Population and immigration authority (Border crossings),\n  - Expenditures abroad of residents (travel- import services). The source of information is the Household Expenditure Survey.\n- The estimation is calculated every quarter in Balance of Payments sector.\n- The data included in the national accounts under other transfers from abroad."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Current Challenges and Conclusions",
      "content": "- In the future we will want to investigate the scope of the phenomenon."
    }
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    "Flight tickets received from abroad to an Israeli resident as gift are included under the secondary income.",
    "The estimation is based on three components which multiplied by each other:",
    "The estimation is calculated every quarter in Balance of Payments sector.",
    "The data included in the national accounts under other transfers from abroad.",
    "In the future we will want to investigate the scope of the phenomenon."
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