{
  "title": "Israel: Services Travel: Expenditures of foreign workers",
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  "summary": "Israel: Services Travel: Expenditures of foreign workers <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": "- Export of Travel services includes goods and services for own use from the domestic economy, expenditures of tourists- business and personal.\n- Travel services- Business are divided into 2 groups: expenditures of foreign workers and other.\n- Expenditures of illegal foreign workers in Israel are included in this item."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Scope, Methodology, Compilation Practices, and Data Sources",
      "content": "- Estimation approach:\n  - Expenditures of foreign workers in Israel are calculated by number of foreign workers multiplied by estimated average expenditure of foreign worker.\n  - The estimation is calculated every quarter in Balance of Payments sector.\n  - The data included in the national accounts at the export component.\n- Coverage rules:\n  - The number of foreign workers include: reported employee and unrecorded employee, and do not include Palestinian workers (the assumption is that their expenses are low because they return home every night).\n- Data sources for the number of foreign workers:\n  - Illegal workers: information about entries of residents from developing countries which staying above a certain time in Israel. The data is derived from Population and immigration authority and the Demographic department in the CBS.\n  - Work permits: administrative files (border control data, Population and immigration authority).\n  - Unregistered foreign workers: data based on Population and Immigration Authority.\n- Basis for expenditure estimates:\n  - Estimates of expenditure per worker are based on administrative data."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Current Challenges and Conclusions",
      "content": "- Exclusion and assumptions:\n  - The expenses of Palestinian workers are not included in the estimation. They return home every night, therefore the assumption is that they don't have accommodation and food expenditures.\n  - However, some of the workers travel by public transport. The plan is to estimate those expenses and to add it to the estimate.\n- Coverage inconsistency with guidelines:\n  - According to the guidelines, workers who are in Israel for up to one year must be included, but currently data are also included foreign workers who stay for over a year.\n  - This is being developed and will be updated in the future."
    }
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