Literal question
<span class="h1">Section V. Characteristics of the population (continued)</span></p>
<p><span class="em">21. Last week, at your place of employment did you work as:</span><div class="i1">[] 1 An employer?<br />[] 2 An independent or self-employed worker?<br />[] 3 An employee?<br />[] 4 A laborer?<br />[] 5 A worker in a family member's business?<br />[] 6 As a domestic worker?<br />[] 7 Other? (specify) ____</div>
Interviewer instructions
<span class="em">For persons of 5 years of age and older</span>
<br />[Questions 16 to 23 are asked of persons age 5 or older]</p>
<p><span class="h3">Question 21: Last week, at your place of employment did you work as:</span>
<br />Option 7 includes all people not included in the categories above.</p>
<p><span class="em">1. Employer</span>: A person who works in his/her own company or business or who is self-employed in a profession or trade and has one or more paid workers under his/her responsibility.</p>
<p>Example: A certified public accountant who is in charge of two (2) paid accounting assistants.</p>
<p><span class="em">2. Independent or self-employed worker</span>: A person who works in his/her own business or is self-employed in a profession or trade and has no paid employees. Example: poster painter, door-to-door fruit salesperson.</p>
<p><span class="em">3. Employee</span>: A person who performs predominantly an intellectual occupation; works in an institution, organization, private or state-owned company, for a biweekly or monthly remuneration in the form of salary, commission, payment in kind, among others. Example: collector in a commercial store, a professional working for an institution or company.</p>
<p><span class="em">4. Laborer</span>: A person who performs predominantly a manual occupation; works in a private or state-owned company or business, for weekly, biweekly or daily remuneration in the form of salary, piecework, commission. Example: sneaker factory worker, mason's helper.</p>
<p><span class="em">5. Worker in a family member's business</span>: A person who works without compensation in a family business or enterprise run by a family member living in the same household or outside the household. Examples: in his/her sister's winery, his/her grandfather's farm, his/her brother's restaurant.</p>
<p><span class="em">6. Domestic worker</span>: A person who provides paid services in a private housing unit. These services are referred to specific household tasks such as laundress, cook, housekeeper, butler, chauffeur, or others.
