Literal question
Economic activity
[Questions 19 - 23: Persons age 10 or older]
19. During the week before census night, did [the respondent] work at least one hour for pay (or without pay), profit, in kind, or for family business?
[] 1 Worked (skip to Q21)
[] 2 Did not work but have a job to go back to (skip to Q21)
[] 3 Did not work but worked before and seeking work and available for work (skip to Q21)
[] 4 Did not work, seeking work for the first time and available for work (skip to Q24)
[] 5 Did not work and not seeking work
Interviewer instructions
7.5. LFQ economic status questions 19-23
The remaining questions are only asked of persons aged 10 years old and above. If you are asking questions for a person 9 years old or less, stop and go to the next person listed on the questionnaire. These questions refer to the period of time 7 days prior to census night.
Q19 "During the week before census night, did [the respondent] work at least one hour for pay (or without pay), profit, in kind or for family business?" Continuing with the first person listed "Person 01" 10 years old or over, ask question 17.
Shade the number that corresponds to the given response.
Never assume that female members of the household are homemakers and do not work. You must probe to get the correct response.
[Below the text is a form showing question 19. This illustration is omitted here]
(1) "Worked" (skip to Q21). Those who should be considered as having worked last week include:
a) All persons at least 10 years old who were in paid employment during the 7 days preceding census night, no matter how much they were paid.
b) All who worked at least one hour for food, goods, or services even if it was their own/family business or farm, including: small shop owners, cattle herders, basket weavers, traditional beer makers, roadside fruit sellers, wayside barbers, or tea and coffee sellers.
c) Farmers, hunters and fishermen (male or female) who worked producing or capturing food for their own household, if this makes up a large part of the food for the household. Women who gather food for household consumption are included in this category.
d) Apprentices who worked at least one hour, whether paid or not.
e) Homemakers who also worked on the family farm/business, or worked some outside the home to earn money. Such as:
Persons who collect firewood and sell part of it.
Persons who make and sell traditional beer.
Persons who milk cattle and sell part of the milk.
Persons who weave baskets and sell them.
f) Students, who while studying, were at the same time in paid or unpaid employment. Students who look after cattle after school hours or at weekends should be included in this category.
(2) "Did not work but have job to go back to" (skip to Q21). Includes those with jobs, businesses or farms that were temporarily not at work the week before census night for a specific reason, such as:
Farmers not working because of drought.
Temporarily away from work/job because of illness, maternity leave, or vacation.
Did not work because there were no customers that week (hairdressers, dressmakers, painters, etc.)
Workers temporarily off from work but have been assured that they will go back to work (construction workers who are waiting for materials for example.)
Persons who have a job but took other temporary work that week, such as teachers involved in the census work.
(3) "Did not work but worked before and seeking work and available for work" (skip to Q21). Includes persons who were not working, had no job, but were looking for and available for work.
This includes persons who completed applications for employment, checked at work sites, asked for work at businesses, or looked for land or money to establish their own business
(4) "Did not work, seeking work for the first time and available for work" (skip to Q24). Includes persons who have never had a job, paid or unpaid, but are seeking and available for work.
(5) "Did not work, and not seeking work." Includes persons who did not work at all (paid or unpaid), were not temporarily away from work, and are not looking for work.
