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Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Oct. 01, 2011
Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract] |
Schedule of comprehensive income (loss) |
|  | Fiscal quarters ended |  |  | Nine fiscal months ended |
|  | October 1, 2011 |  |  | October 2, 2010 |  |  | October 1, 2011 |  |  | October 2, 2010 |
Net earnings |  | $ | 50,692 |  |  | $ | 90,152 |  |  | $ | 208,795 |  |  | $ | 212,756 |
Other comprehensive income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Foreign currency translation adjustment |  |  | (48,352 | ) |  |  | 61,476 |  |  |  | 16,067 |  |  |  | (18,020 | )
Unrealized gain (loss) on available for sale securities |  |  | (605 | ) |  |  | 481 |  |  |  | (845 | ) |  |  | 348 |
Pension and other postretirement adjustments |  |  | 1,974 |  |  |  | 3,977 |  |  |  | 4,390 |  |  |  | (1,021 | )
Total other comprehensive income (loss) |  |  | (46,983 | ) |  |  | 65,934 |  |  |  | 19,612 |  |  |  | (18,693 | )
Comprehensive income |  | $ | 3,709 |  |  | $ | 156,086 |  |  | $ | 228,407 |  |  | $ | 194,063 |
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests |  |  | 205 |  |  |  | 353 |  |  |  | 926 |  |  |  | 878 |
Comprehensive income attributable to Vishay stockholders |  | $ | 3,504 |  |  | $ | 155,733 |  |  | $ | 227,481 |  |  | $ | 193,185 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Publisher FASB -Number -Article -Subparagraph -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Paragraph 1 -Section 45 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6920043&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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