Literal question
III. Economic characteristics
For those 12 years of age and older
17. What did you do during the greater part of last week?
Ask each of the questions in the order given, until receiving an affirmative response.
[] 1 Worked
[] 2 Did not work but had a job
[] 3 Looked for work having worked before
[] 4 Looked for your first job
[] 5 Lived off retirement or pension
[] 6 Lived off investment income
[] 7 Studied
[] 8 Did domestic chores in your own home
[] 9 Disabled
Other situation (specify) ____
Interviewer instructions
III. For people 12 years old and older. Economic characteristics.
Question 17. What did you do with most of your time last week?
Read each of the options until receiving an affirmative answer and make an X in the corresponding box.
If it is a case not specified, specify the case on the line "other situation."
[A depiction of question 17 to the right of the preceding text is omitted here.]
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If you have marked the boxes corresponding to 1, 2, or 3, continue with questions 18, 19, and 20. If you have marked the boxes corresponding to 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or "other situation," end the interview, unless dealing with the head of household, who should answer question 21.
Keep in mind the following definitions:
Work: Includes all persons who work for pay or salary, "in cash" or "in kind," for "tip or commission" or for "themselves." Also if they work, without remuneration, for a family business.
[A drawing of men working is omitted here.]
Does not work, but has a job: Includes all persons who have a job or business, but who in the week being asked about, did not work for reasons of illness, vacation, machine malfunction, lack of work material, bad weather, accidents, etc.
[A drawing of men who did not work but had a job is omitted here.]
Seeking work having worked before: This refers to persons who, having worked before, in the week before the Census did not work and spent their time seeking another job.
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[A drawing of men seeking work is omitted here.]
Seeking their first job: Includes the people who, not having worked before, desire to do so, and have made an effort to find work, personally offering themselves to possible employers or registering themselves at job placement offices, putting notices in the newspaper, etc.
Living from their retirement or pension: Includes the persons who did not have a paid occupation the week before the census, and maintained themselves solely from what they received by way of retirement or pension.
[A drawing of men receiving pension is omitted here.]
Lived from their investments: Includes persons who received income solely from the product of their holdings or capital.
Studied: Refers to persons who dedicated themselves exclusively to studying, without having done any paid work.
Work in one's own home: Includes persons who dedicated themselves to domestic labors in their own home, such as homemakers, and other relatives who do domestic chores without pay. If the enumerated does work in someone else's home, and is paid "in cash," make an X in the box corresponding to "work."
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[A drawing of people working is omitted here.]
Disabled: Includes those people who cannot work or seek work because of their advanced age, physical disability, or chronic illness.
Other situation: Includes any other reason for why they neither work for pay nor seek paid work.
[A drawing of man in jail and old man is omitted here.]
