Definition
- Wages and salaries are the remuneration received by the worker or employee in accordance with the agreement or certain rules.
- Wages are usually only based on an agreement between the workers (not fixed) and the employer, usually not routine, depending on the whether there is a given job or not.
- Salaries given to permanent workers or employees.
- Wages / salaries may the form of cash or goods / services
How to determine the main work:
- If a household head/member in the last one week only has only one work, then it is considered the main work.
- If a household head/member in the last one week has more than one work, the main work is the one that consumes the most time.
- If the time spent to do those works are the same, then the work that produces the largest income is considered the main work.
- If the time spend and the amount of income are the same, please ask the respondent which one is considered his main work.
- A household head/member is considered to have more than one job if the management of such works done separately. However, a farm worker who works for several farm owners (separate management) is considered having one main work.