Literal question
[Questions 22-40 were asked of persons age 15+, per question 21.]
Questions 33-38 refer to your job or business last week. If none, answer for your job of longest duration since January 1, 1970.
[Questions 33-38 were asked of persons 15+ who worked in 1970 or 1971, per question 32.]
36. Occupation
a. What kind of work were you doing? ____
e.g., selling shoes, civil engineering, motor vehicle repairing, metal machining, clerical work.
b. What were your most important activities or duties? ____
e.g. fitting shoes, designing bridges, auto body work, posting invoices.
c. What was your job title? ____
e.g. manager of shoe department, civil engineer, auto body repairman, invoice clerk.
Interviewer instructions
33 to 38.
If you had a job last week, answer these questions for your job last week even if you were absent from work because of temporary lay-off, illness, vacation, labour dispute, training courses, etc.
Answer the questions for the same job. If you had more than one job last week, give information for the one at which you worked the most hours.
If you had no job or business last week (with or without pay), give the information for your job of longest duration since January 1, 1970.
36. The three parts of this question refer to your occupation in the industry reported in Question 35. More than one question is required to ensure that people doing similar work will be put in the same occupational group in our statistics. Office workers may be mainly filing, typing, or calculating payrolls; professional such as engineers or lawyers may be working in their profession or in managerial positions; factory workers may be sewing garments, operating drill presses or acting as foreman of such operations, etc. Try to distinguish between the general kind of work you are doing, your most important activities or duties and your job title, i.e., the term used by the business or organization for you position. Be as precise as you can. One-word descriptions are often not complete. Some examples of complete and incomplete entries for parts (a), (b) and (c) of Question 36 are as follows:
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Complete:
1. (a) Maintaining electrical equipment
(b) Electrical repair and maintenance
(c) Apprentice electrician
2. (a) Operating a packaging machine
(b) Wrapping paper serviettes
(c) Wrapping machine operator
3. (a) General office work
(b) Typing and filing
(c) Clerk-typist
4. (a) Electronic testing and inspection
(b) Testing electronic components
(c) Electronic inspection technician
5. (a) Wheat farming
(b) Operating a wheat farm
(c) Wheat farmer
6. (a) Operating a pharmacy
(b) Dispensing and selling drugs
(c) Proprietor--Retail drug store
Incomplete:
1. (a) Maintenance
(b) Repair work
(c) Apprentice;
2. (a) Factory work
(b) Operating a machine
(c) Machine operator
3. (a) Clerical
(b) Office work
(c) Clerk
4. (a) Technical
(b) Inspection
(c) Inspection technician
5. (a) Farming
(b) Farm work
(c) Farmer
6. (a) Owner
(b) Selling
(c) Proprietor
