Literal question
Education and professional training
(For all persons born before January 1, 1952)
[Applies to questions 8 - 10]
8. Are you currently a student?
[] Yes. Answer questions 9a, b, and c.
[] No. Go directly to question number 10.
Do not answer "yes" unless you are taking courses from a general educational establishment, either professional or technical, or from a university, for the duration of the school year.
9a. Name and address of the school or university:
____
9b. Nature of the classes you are taking:
____
Examples: primary, modern or classical secondary [secondaire moderne ou classique], technical, higher, 2nd degree agricultural [agricole du 2eme degré], etc.
9c. Designation of your class, section or specialty:
____
Examples: 3rd modern, 4th technical, M.P.C., etc.
Professional Activity
(For all persons born before January 1, 1948)
[Applies to questions 11 - 16]
If you are currently without work and you are looking for work, go directly to question 16.
If you are no longer working, go directly to question 17.
11. Principal Profession. Indicate your current occupation or job.
(even if you are still just an apprentice or if you work helping a family member in his/her occupation.) A woman taking care of only her own household should answer "without profession."
____
Be specific; examples: Cashier accountant, automobile repair mechanic, hot roller [lamineur à chaud], worker in metal carpentry, truck drivers carrying heavy loads, female machinist in production work [mécanicienne en confection], mechanical designer, grain broker, wine grower, horticulturalist, shepherd, etc.
14b. For state or municipal civil servants, public service employees (electric company, railroad, etc.), career military personnel, indicate your category [grade].
Examples: clerk, administrative secretary, administrator, chief engineer, registering agent [facteur enregistrant] for the French National Railroad:
____
16. For persons who are currently without work and who are looking for work.
a. Have you ever worked?
[] yes
[] no
b. What is your profession?
____
c. For how long have you been seeking work?
____
17. For persons who no longer work.
Retired from public service, retired executives/managers, workers who have reached the age of retirement, persons no longer working in business, etc.
What was your principal occupation? ____
Interviewer instructions
Questions 11 through 17 The questions on professional activity are especially important. You should check carefully to make sure they are filled out carefully
Question 11: This question is of capital importance. It is impossible to be too specific in this category.
Read carefully the following explanations and the examples given on the individual report [bulletin individuel], as well as the following list:
Examples of inadequate answers which should not be accepted under any circumstance and comments
1. Answers which are inadequate because they are not specific enough:
Employee
Worker
Engineer
Indicate exactly the occupation of the person in question. For example: department- store salesperson, metal turner, chemical engineer.
Civil Servant
Railroad employee
Gas company worker
Specify the rank or job of civil servants and employees of public services. For example: accounting and order clerk, combined- use railroad agent [facteur mixte S.N.C.F.].
Shopkeeper
Manufacturer
Craftsman
Administrator
Answer in this way, for example: retail grocer, automobile repair mechanic, director of a noodle factory.
2. Answers which are inadequate because they are incomplete:
O.S.2.
O.P.
Qualified laborer
Team leader
Foreman
The above indicate the professional rank, but do not give the individual occupation.
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Question 12 - Unpaid workers who help another person in his/her job
It may sometime happen that certain persons - above all, women - work helping another person in his/her job without receiving any pay for their work. These persons should answer "yes" to question 12, even if they only work as such on a part- time basis.
This question concerns, for example, the wife of a farmer who participates in farm work, or the wife or daughter of a shopkeeper who spends a few hours a day at the shop as a salesperson or at the cash register.
Question 13 - Household employee. This category is not intended for persons who are self- employed and work at home (craftsmen, seamstresses, milliners). It applies only to persons who work at home, often on a piecework basis, for an industrial or commercial establishment which pays them on this basis. Such is the case, for example, of certain designers for fashion magazines, persons who work for design houses, etc.
If these persons have several employers at the same time, indicate in question 15 which is their principal employer.
