Literal question
[Questions 20-26 apply to people aged 15 and over]
25 If you are:
Working for payment or profit (Q24 box 1)
Unemployed (Q24 box 3)
retired (Q24 box 6)
Answer the following questions about your main job or your last main job if you are not currently employed. Otherwise skip to Q32.
32 In the week ended Sunday 28 April did you do any work, either full-time or part-time, for payment or profit:
as an employee
as a self-employed/ freelance
in your own/family business
on a community employment scheme or other employer scheme?
Check "Yes" for any paid work, including casual or temporary work, even if only for one hour.
Check "Yes" if you were away from work ill, on holiday, on maternity leave or temporarily laid off.
Check "Yes" if you worked, paid or unpaid in your own/family business
If "Yes", skip to Q36
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
Interviewer instructions
24. How would you describe your present principal status?
Check one box only.
[] 1 Working for payment or profit
[] 2 Looking for first regular job
[] 3 Unemployed
[] 4 Student or pupil
[] 5 Looking after home/family
[] 6 Retired from employment
[] 7 Unable to work due to permanent sickness or disability
[] 8 Other, write in ____
Question 24 will provide information on principal economic status, allowing us to classify persons aged 15 years and over into those within and outside the labour force.
Some guidelines on answering question 24:
As the person's principal economic status is required, only one of the listed categories should be ticked.
The following should tick 1: "Working for payment or profit"
Persons who are self-employed
Persons mainly engaged as "Assisting relatives" on farms, in shops or in any other commercial enterprises even if they receive no payment or no regular payment
Priests, nuns and brothers except where they are 6 "Retired" or 7 "Unable to work due to permanent sickness"
Persons temporarily absent from work due to illness, holidays, etc.
Apprentices who are in employment and who also attend school or technical college
Full-time students who are in part-time employment should tick 4 "Student or pupil".
