Table 5.
Descriptive statistics.
Source: Israel Social Survey, 2009
| Women | Men | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % With 3 or more children | % Distribution in sample | % With 3 or more children | % Distribution in sample | |
| Self-defined religiosity | ||||
| Ultra-Orthodox | 80.7 | 8.3 | 68.9 | 8.6 |
| Religious | 52.7 | 10.0 | 49.0 | 12.4 |
| Traditional/religious | 45.6 | 13.7 | 37.1 | 12.3 |
| Traditional/less-religious | 26.8 | 24.0 | 26.3 | 24.5 |
| Secular | 22.4 | 44.0 | 21.4 | 42.3 |
| Age | ||||
| 25–29 | 10.0 | 22.9 | 5.6 | 24.7 |
| 30–34 | 23.6 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 22.7 |
| 35–39 | 42.1 | 19.8 | 39.1 | 19.0 |
| 40–44 | 51.5 | 17.4 | 55.8 | 18.3 |
| 45–49 | 58.1 | 16.0 | 63.9 | 15.4 |
| Marital status | ||||
| Once and currently married | 45.4 | 67.8 | 46.6 | 63.3 |
| Previously married or married more than once | 26.9 | 12.7 | 32.3 | 7.6 |
| Never married | 1.6 | 19.5 | 0.6 | 29.1 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Mizrahi | 42.9 | 37.1 | 39.2 | 39.2 |
| Ashkenazi (not FSU) | 39.7 | 20.8 | 41.9 | 17.9 |
| Born in Former Soviet Union (FSU) | 21.4 | 15.0 | 18.5 | 12.2 |
| Third-generation Israeli | 26.6 | 26.9 | 22.7 | 30.3 |
| Socioeconomic status | ||||
| Academic degree/none | 28.1/38.9 | 40.5/59.5 | 31.8/32.2 | 28.7/71.3 |
| Car ownership/none | 35.1/33.4 | 68.5/31.5 | 32.4/31.4 | 68.1/31.9 |
| Religious community | ||||
| Values living in residential area with persons with similar religiosity/does not value | 53.5/30.3 | 18.5/81.5 | 47.8/28.6 | 18.4/81.6 |
| Sees oneself affiliated with a movement or group within Judaism/does not see oneself affiliated | 56.5/28.6 | 21.2/78.8 | 44.8/28.1 | 24.1/75.9 |
| Participates in organized setting of religious learning/does not participate | 57.1/30.0 | 16.6/83.4 | 50.0/26.7 | 23.2/76.8 |
| Religion as a social institution | ||||
| Does not support option of civil marriage/supports option | 57.7/27.8 | 22.9/77.1 | 46.5/26.6 | 27.7/72.3 |
| Religio-nationalism | ||||
| Residence in West Bank/no residence in West Bank | 63.0/33.4 | 4.1/95.9 | 62.5/30.7 | 4.5/95.5 |
| Strongly opposes separation of religion and state/does not strongly oppose | 47.8/29.5 | 27.4/72.6 | 39.4/29.2 | 28.1/71.9 |
| Gender and family norms | ||||
| Traditional gender role attitudes/less traditional attitudes | 46.7/31.4 | 20.7/79.3 | 40.2/28.5 | 30.4/69.6 |
| Traditional family attitudes/less traditional attitudes | 47.5/28.2 | 33.0/67.0 | 39.1/27.4 | 39.8/60.2 |
| Ideals regarding family building | ||||
| Woman should start family by age 24/start older | 59.9/23.9 | 29.5/70.5 | 45.2/23.7 | 38.8/61.2 |
| Ideal family size up to 2 | 12.2 | 12.6 | 10.7 | 12.1 |
| Ideal family size 3 | 22.1 | 39.8 | 24.0 | 42.4 |
| Ideal family size 4 | 44.4 | 30.3 | 34.6 | 22.6 |
| Ideal family size 5 or more | 57.4 | 10.8 | 53.2 | 16.3 |
| Non-numerical answer for ideal family size | 67.8 | 6.6 | 61.7 | 6.5 |
| Labor market activity | ||||
| Out of labor force | 46.3 | 15.7 | 36.4 | 10.6 |
| Unemployed | 29.2 | 6.8 | 24.6 | 4.6 |
| Employed part-time | 45.5 | 24.8 | 25.8 | 12.8 |
| Employed full-time | 26.6 | 52.7 | 33.0 | 72.0 |
| All | 34.5 | 32.1 | ||
Sample includes Jewish women and men, aged 25–49. N = 1309 for women; N = 1238 for men. See text for details of variable definitions