Literal question
Part B: Persons(s) present in household continued? (For persons age 10 years and above)
[Applies to questions 11-63]
11. Main job previous week
(If options 1-5 go to Col. 14, and if options 6 or 7 go to next person)
[] 1 Worked for pay
[] 2 Got job but did not work
[] 3 Worked for profit
[] 4 On attachment but didn't work
[] 5 Apprenticeship
[] 6 Kept home
[] 7 Went to school
[] 8 Did nothing
18. Employment status
[] 1 Employer
[] 2 Employee
[] 3 Own account worker
[] 4 Members of producer coop.
[] 5 Unpaid family worker
[] 6 Others
Interviewer instructions
2.9 Employment Status:
This describes the working situation and personality engaged in employment. E.g
(a) Employees:
These are workers with employment contracts (explicit or implicit, written or oral), which give them a basic remuneration in cash (in form of wages, salaries, bonuses, commission from sales, piece rates etc) or in kind (in form of food, fuel, housing or training). These include paid apprentices and paid trainees, casual and seasonal workers, employees of producers' cooperative, etc whether in the private or public sector.
(b) Employers:
These are those who work on their own account or with one or a few partners and they may engage on a continuous or regular basis, one or more persons to work for them in their business as employees. Their business may be a corporation or a household or unincorporated enterprise
(c ) Own-Account workers:
This includes those who work on their own account or with one or more partners and do not engage any employee on a continuous
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or regular basis. However, they may engage employees as long as it is not on a regular or continuous basis and they may work with the help of (unpaid) contributing family members
(d) Contributing Family Workers:
These are those who work in a market-oriented establishment operated by a relation living in the same household and are not partners in the business. They include young persons who work without pay in a business operated by a relation (e.g. uncle, grandmother) and may not necessarily live in the same household.
(f) Others:
This is the residual category of workers who could not be classified under any of the group mentioned above.
Col. 18: Employment Status:
The employment status of an individual is any of options 1 to 5. You only need to shade the appropriate code of the respondent's employment status and shade bubble (6) for others.
