Table 4 Socio-demographic characteristics of the sample
PWD | Without disabilities | Total sample | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ethnicity | Immigrants | 22.0% | 16.5% | 17.7% |
Arabs | 17.1% | 14.8% | 15.3% | |
Veteran Jews | 60.9% | 68.8% | 66.9% | |
Gender | Female | 56.5% | 50.1% | 51.6% |
Male | 43.5% | 49.9% | 48.4% | |
Locality | Periphery | 43.0% | 41.2% | 41.6% |
Center | 57.0% | 58.8% | 58.4% | |
Religiosity | Secular | 34.5% | 42.2% | 40.4% |
Traditional | 41.0% | 33.8% | 35.5% | |
Religious | 18.8% | 15.8% | 16.5% | |
Orthodox | 5.8% | 8.2% | 7.7% | |
Marital status | Married | 62.8% | 65.3% | 64.7% |
Separated | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.8% | |
Divorced | 9.3% | 6.1% | 6.9% | |
Widowed | 15.8% | 3.3% | 6.2% | |
Single | 11.1% | 24.5% | 21.4% | |
Employment status | Doesn’t employed | 63.7% | 28.3% | 36.6% |
Employed | 36.3% | 71.7% | 63.4% | |
Number of children | No children | 12.9% | 27.2% | 23.8% |
1 | 11.3% | 11.1% | 11.1% | |
2 | 23.2% | 21.1% | 21.6% | |
3 | 19.2% | 19.7% | 19.6% | |
4+ | 32.1% | 18.6% | 21.8% | |
Education | Secondary school completion | 31.3% | 22.0% | 23.8% |
Matriculation certificate | 17.7% | 23.9% | 22.7% | |
Post-secondary, non-academic | 25.6% | 20.8% | 21.7% | |
BA | 12.3% | 20.6% | 19.0% | |
MA | 12.0% | 11.4% | 11.5% | |
PhD | 1.2% | 1.4% | 1.3% | |
Age | Mean | 57.95 | 42.23 | 45.91 |
Family income | Mean, NIS | 7413.56 | 11,489.13 | 10,508.15 |
Hebrew proficiency | Mean (scale 1–5) | 3.66 | 4.45 | 4.27 |