Interviewer instructions
Question 11: Activities during the previous week
This question is intended to obtain all respondents' activities during the previous week. In order to achieve the best output, it is strongly recommended that the enumerator read and ask each respondent the activity in question in a series (the flow of questions is important). The activities are:
1. Working/having a job
2. Seeking a job
3. Schooling
4. Others
Working is the activity of conducting work for at least one hour during the past week to obtain income or profits. Working for an hour has to be conducted continuously, including those who have jobs but are temporarily not working. Earnings or profits cover: salary/wages including all allowances, bonus and earnings from leasing, interests and profits in the form of cash or goods.
Information:
1. A person who conducts activities that produce cereals (rice, corn, sorghum) or palawija [crops] (cassava, sweet potato, potato) for self-consumption and primary needs and not as a hobby is considered as working.
2. A person who conducts activities that generate a product (not cereals or crops) for self-consumption such as sewing [one's] own clothes, painting for a private collection, cooking for [one's] own family and fishing for pleasure is not considered as working.
3. Household members who help the work of the head of the household or other household members, for example in the rice field, stall/shop, etc., are considered as working although they do not receive salary/wages (unpaid worker).
4. A person who operates machines/farm machinery, industrial machines, party instruments, transportation modes and others is categorized as working.
5. Domestic workers are categorized as working; they may be classified as household members of their employer or as non-household members.
6. A prisoner who does activities such as agriculture, making furniture and others is not considered as working.
7. A person who rents his farm to another person and shares the products is categorized as working if he/she is taking responsibility for management of the farm business.
8. Those who have permanent jobs but during the previous week for a temporary period did not work/take on leave, sick, absent, etc., are considered as working.
Seeking a job is an activity of a person trying to obtain a job.
Information:
The activity of seeking a job is not limited to the period of the past week, but could have been done for several periods as long as during the past week the status is still waiting for the result of the work application.
People who are seeking jobs are categorized into:
a. Those who are working or have jobs, but because of certain circumstances are still trying to obtain another job.
b. Those who are not occupied and will be called back, but are still trying to obtain another job.
c. Those who worked at least 1 hour during the past week, and are trying to obtain another job.
d. Those who never worked before and are trying to obtain another job.
e. Those who worked but because of certain circumstances have quit or were fired and are trying to obtain another job.
f. Those who are usually in school or doing domestic work and are trying to find a job.
Attending school is attending a formal school at the primary level or at other levels (secondary and high), including those on vacation. For those who go to school and also work, the activity during the past week is the one that is the most time consuming.
Others are activities besides working, attending school, seeking work, or doing household work. Also, it includes those who are incapable to conduct activities, such as elderly persons, handicapped people, and those who receive a pension and do not work anymore. [Persons who engage in] sleep, leisure, socialization, sports, courses, picnics and other positive activities ([such as] joining an organization and voluntary work) are not [considered to be] engaged in "Other" activities.
Blacken [the oval] for the box of the activity's code during the previous week.
