Literal question
The following questions 13-24 should only be completed for persons born in 1960 or earlier.
The following questions (13-16) refer to the person's usual occupation during the last twelve months (March 1970-February 1971).
13. Does he/she usually work?
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
_ _ If yes, how many months did he/she work during the last twelve months?
Interviewer instructions
Questions 13-16, Usual occupation during the last twelve months (March 1970-February 1971)
148. Questions 13-24 should only be completed only for persons of age 10 and more.
[Omitted, definitions and instructions]
149. An individual is to be considered as working at if he has a job that provides his and the household's livelihood. That is, that the individual is working in order to profit, or for pay (salary, a day's wages, contract work) or assist in the family business even without pay apart from his livelihood as a member of the family.
150. Working individuals may be distinguished in two categories: Those that are always working at the same job and those that that are working in various jobs.
151. Usual occupation is the work that the individual is specialized or is working for the most part of the year. E.g. tailor, shoe-maker, builder, miner, loader, tobacco worker, land worker etc.
Question 13, Does he usually work?
152. Yes will be recorded for those that are usually working regardless of whether during the census taking are working or not. That is, during the census taking the enumerated may be on leave, or is unemployed, i.e. dismissed from his work and is seeking work, or sick, did not work due to the mending of the machine he were operating etc. but usually he is working. Yes will be also recorded for the individuals that have just started working. As in the case of a Gymnasium graduate that started working only a few days before. No will be recorded for those that have stopped working due to old age, illness or other reason and do not intend in the future to work, as in the case of a person that was five days age a civil servant and now a pensioner.
153. Yes will be also recorded for the managers not involved in bodily work of a small or large business, e.g. the head of a large agricultural land or the aged widow owing a small farm, for the cultivation of which two waged workers are being employed, but they do not work themselves in their land.
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154. Yes will be also recorded for those working seasonally (except those employed in family business without pay, see paragraph 156) as during the Christmas or Easter holidays, the cultivation or harvest, but are working for 6 or more hours per day.
155. Yes will be also recorded for those working daily for a few hours in a small family business or outside their dwelling (e.g. office or shop cleaners), as long as they are working at least 1/3 of the regular working time.
156. As working are also considered the family members assisting without pay (e.g. housewife, pupil, etc.) as long as they are systematically working in the family business. As systematic is considered the work where the individual is working for a 1/3 of the regular working time.
157. No will be recorded for the housewives, pupils and students, as long as they do not belong in the before mentioned cases, old persons no longer working, unable to work due to old age, sickness or handicap, apprentices in another business, that are working without any sort of pay since they are not usually working.
158. No will be recorded as well for those serving as conscripts or reserves and those that are under imprisonment.
Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers are working and YES will be recorded.
159. [Omitted]
