Interviewer instructions
Family Income Defined:
In general, total family income includes primary income (earnings) and receipts from other sources received by all family members during the reference period as participants in any economic activity (either as laborer, proprietor, capitalist or entrepreneur), or as recipients of transfers, pensions, grants, etc.
Primary income includes salaries and wages, commissions, tips, bonuses, family and clothing allowances, transportation and representation allowances, honorarium, and other forms of compensation and net receipts/profits derived from the operation of family-operated enterprises/activities and the practice of a profession or trade.
Receipts from other sources are receipts, gifts and assistance from abroad and from domestic source, dividends from investments, imputed rental values of owner-occupied dwelling units, interests, royalties, rentals including landowner's share of agricultural products and pensions.
Also included as part of family income are receipts from family sustenance activities, which are not considered as family-operated enterprises.
There are six major sections under Part III as follows:
Section A. Salaries and Wages from Employment
Section B. Net Share of Crops, Fruits and Vegetables Produced or
Livestock and Poultry Raised by Other Households
Section C. Other Sources of Income
Section D. Other Receipts
Section E. Checklist for Entrepreneurial and Family Sustenance Activities
Section F. Family Sustenance Activities
