Literal question
[Questions 36-39 were asked of persons age 12 or older who had worked during last week or had a job attachment to, as per question 35.]
38. What is the main activity of the work place (firm/organization) where you worked or had a job attachment in the last week?
(For example; public service, retail trade, banking, refrigerator manufacturing, construction works, field agriculture, animal feeding, poultry.)
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Interviewer instructions
Questions 35-43, are to be asked of all males and females age 12 or older
Question 38. What is the nature of the business/activity pursued by the place, establishment, or workplace that you were working in or with which you did not sever your connection?
(Activities are to be written out explicitly as for example, public service, retail trade, banking, refrigerator manufacture, construction work, field agriculture, livestock fattening, poultry farming.)
This question is intended to indicate the nature of the economic activity of the place where the household member works and which was specified in question 37. Here, the name of the workplace or the job done by the person is not to be written. In a nutshell, whatever the work done or service provided by the workplace cited in question 37 may be, it is to be recorded in the appropriate space.
It should be written in a clear and explicit way, as for example, banking, insurance, health services, public service, municipal services, educational services, barbering, tailoring, retail trade in foodstuffs, road passenger transportation, intra-city cargo transport, building construction, road construction, field agriculture, vegetable raising, fruit growing, animal husbandry, bee-keeping, etc.
One point that must be heeded is that, even if the job done by the person differs from the main activity of the workplace, the workplace's activity indicated in question 37 is the one that must be written down. For example, in recording the economic activity for a doctor working for the health unit of the Highway General Directorate, it must be filled out in reference to the Highway General Directorate's activity, namely as "Public service", rather than in reference to the doctor's medical activities as "Health services".
The place, establishment, or workplace that is being worked in or with which involvement had not been severed, is to be written explicitly and unambiguously, as done in the examples below:
