Interviewer instructions
Questions 35-43, are to be asked of all males and females age 12 or older
Question 39. What was your employment status in the job that you were working at or did not sever your connection to, during the last week?
Keeping the definitions below in mind, an "X" is to be placed into the appropriate box.
1. [Employee] on a wage, salaried, or a casual basis: People working in return for a wage or salary for an employer in someone else's business, in order to earn an income in-kind (goods) or in cash (money). For example, a director, a low-level/low-skilled service employee, a laborer, a shoemaker, a barber and journeymen and other workers working on a weekly or monthly basis.
Casual laborers (seasonal, incidental, temporary): Those dependent on an employer, not working on a regular or steady basis, and who, depending on the nature of the job, work seasonally or temporarily or whenever they manage to find work. For example, those engaged in construction labor, hoeing or collecting crops in the field, etc.
2. Employer: A person employing at least one wage or casual worker in his/her own workplace. In a workplace, there may be more than one partner with the status of employer. In such a situation, each partner is to be regarded as being an employer.
3. Self-employed: Fitting this definition are those seeking to generate an income in-kind (goods) or in cash (money) by working in their own business, field, vineyard, garden, store, office, manufacturing facility, repair facility, etc., doing so either alone or together with unpaid family members (without employing any wage or casual laborers). In a workplace, it is possible for several partners to be working together without employing any paid people. Partners in this situation are also to be deemed as working on their own account.
4. Unpaid family laborer: A member of the household contributing labor without getting paid, with the purpose of assisting in an economic activity being run by one or several household members.
