Literal question
[Questions 35 - 43 were asked of persons age 12 or older.]
35. Did you work at any job during the last week?
(Persons who worked to earn cash or income in kind even one hour during the last week should be marked as having "Worked." For the persons who did not work last week because of vacation, illness, travel etc., the choice "Did not work but has a job attachment" will be marked.)
[] 1 Worked
[] 2 Did not work but has a job attachment
[] 3 Did not work (Go to question 40)
Interviewer instructions
Questions 35-43, are to be asked of all males and females age 12 or older
Question 35. During the last week, did you work in a job?
(Those having worked even if only for one hour during the last week for money or goods are to be considered as having "Worked". For those who had not been working during the last week due to vacation, illness, travel or other such reasons, or were unable to work at their job due to seasonal exigencies, the "Did not work but has a job attachment" option is to be marked.)
This question is being asked to find out whether or not the person being administered the census had worked at any job in order to earn an income in cash (money) or in-kind (goods) during the last week. Question 35 seeks to characterize the household members' working or non-working situations based on the three-group categorization displayed below:
a. Working
b. Did not work, but has a job attachment
c. Not working
a. Working: The "Working" option in question 35 is to be marked for those people who had worked even if only for one hour during the last week, in return for an income in the form of cash (money) or in-kind (goods), as a wage/salary earner, as a casual laborer, as a paid salaried domestic (home) worker, as a self-employed person, as an employer, or as unpaid family labor.
The "Working" option in question 35 is to be marked for those household members who, even though it may not be in the form of a regular job, is contributing to the household's work endeavors as an unpaid family worker, is engaging in activities such as carpet weaving, sewing of clothes for purposes of sale, and for those engaging in jobs such as house cleaning and child care in return for payment.
Furthermore, the "Working" option in question 35 is to be marked for those working without pay to acquire job or professional skills (For example: those people who are apprentices, trainees, students and unpaid family workers).
b. Did not work, but has a job attachment: The option "Did not work, but has a job attachment" is to be marked in question 35 for those people with a job, who are not at work for a variety of reasons but who are nevertheless continuing to maintain their connection (relationship) to the job.
It is possible that the household member may not have been able to be at work last week due to illness, injury, having been on vacation or on holiday, for family or personal reasons, due to bad weather conditions, due to the fact that the owner's operations were temporarily slowed down or halted for technical or economic reasons, due to workplace disputes, or because there was no work to be done in agricultural operations. For people in these sorts of situations, an "X" is to be marked at the "Did not work, but has a job attachment" option.
c. Not working: The option "Did not work" should be marked in question 35 for those not having worked in any way and not having maintained a connection to any job during the last week.
For those seasonal, casual, and temporary workers not at work and retaining no connection to any job within the last week, an "X" is to be placed at the "Did not work" option in Question 35.
In the rural sector, some people give out the land they own to a tenant or sharecropper, with the tenant or sharecropper being the ones working the land, while they themselves only contribute to the expenses incurred and share in the product produced at harvest time. Since such people do not contribute in any way to production and consequently, because the income they acquire is not dependent on any activity, an "X" should be placed in the "Did not work" box in question 35 for these people.
