On 2 July 2009, the stage of completion of information by telephone for the Population Census Survey was completed. The survey was conducted in two stages:
In the first stage, face-to-face interviews were conducted among the survey sample population. That stage began on 28 December 2008, and continued until 6 March 2009. During that period, approximately 2,000 enumerators arrived at approximately 330,000 households throughout the country, which included approximately 1.3 million people.
In the second stage, completion of necessary information was conducted in telephone interviews. During this stage, representatives of the Central Bureau of Statistics called about 100,000 households that were sampled but had not been interviewed in the previous stage. The stage of completing information by telephone began on 25 March 2009 and ended on 2 July 2009.
This information collected in the Population Census Survey will provide a reliable picture of the population of Israel and its demographic, economic, and social characteristics.

The Central Bureau of Statistics would like to thank the public for cooperating with the enumerators.

The CBS is currently conducting statistical analyses of the data obtained in the survey, and is preparing to publish the results. Initial data from the 2008 Population Census Survey will be published in September 2009, and complete data will be published during the first half of 2010.