Literal question
25. Work condition
Read all of the options until you receive an affirmative response.
Circle only one answer.
1 Employee or laborer
2 Day laborer or peasant
3 Boss (hires workers)
4 Self-employed
5 Unpaid laborer in a family business or land
Answers 3, 4, 5 continue with question 27
Interviewer instructions
25. Job Situation
This question is meant to learn if, in their job, the person is an employee, manual laborer, day laborer, unskilled laborer, owner, own-account worker, or unpaid worker in the family business or land.
If a person was contracted to work in a business, company, or government, and in return for this job they received payment, they are an employee or manual laborer.
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Some people who work in exchange for payment in agriculture or in construction are considered day laborers or unskilled laborers.
If the person has their own business, they can be an owner or an own-account worker. Owners are those who, during the previous week, had one or more employees whom they paid; on the other hand, an own-account worker does not contract personnel, even though they could have received help from other people without having paid them.
Those people who helped or worked without receiving payment are known as unpaid workers in the family business or land. These people can work or help in stores, workshops, orchards, farms, plots or in the care and raising of animals for family consumption.
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This option also includes unpaid workers who are not family members of the owner of the business.
When the informant appears uncertain, ask other questions to obtain the required response, such as "Do you work for anyone?," "Do they pay you?," "Do you just help in the job, but the don't pay you?," "Do you work in your own business?".
