Definition
Employment Status:
It refers to the employment status of the employed or unemployed ever worked persons. The employment status is categorized as follows:
1.Employer: A person who works in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him \ her and hires or supervises the work of one or more waged employees. This includes persons operating their projects or contracting companies provided they employ a minimum of one waged employee. Shareholders are not considered employers even if they are working in the public \ public limited liability companies.
2.Self-employed: A person who works in an establishment that is totally or partially belonging to him \ her and hires no waged employees. This includes persons engaged independently in a profession or trade.
3.Regular wage employee: A person who works for others or for employer and receives remuneration in wage, salary, commission, tips, piece-rates or pay in kind, and must take in consideration that there is a agreement (written/orally) between the employer /work side and the employee which guarantee for employee work for period of time and guarantee for him some rights. This concept include employees in the ministries and the other public parties, in addition to wage employees in household projects or for others, employee\National Government, employee\Foreign Government, employee\ UNRWA, employee\International Organization, employee\Nonprofit Organization, regular employee\ private sector, regular employee\ foreign private sector.
4.Irregular wage employee: A person who works for employer, or under enterprise supervising as irregular employee, such as casual workers, daily or weekly without any official commitment for work, and when they are unemployed in the reference week they do not classified as employed
5.Unpaid family member: A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise (farm, undertaking … etc) operated by a related person in the same family.
Universe
The PHC-2007 covered all individuals who were in the Palestinian Territory on the census reference night (30/11-1/12/2007) regardless of nationality and citizenship. It also covered all Palestinians who have usual residence in the Palestinian Territory (including those who were temporarily absent for less than one year for the purpose of visit, tourism, treatment, etc. while their households are still living at their permanent places of residence in the Palestinian Territory). All Palestinian students abroad while their households are still living at their permanent places of residence were also included, in addition to all prisoners and detainees in the Israeli jails regardless of the duration of detention. The census excluded all Palestinians holding identity cards who were absent for more than one year (except for the students), even if their households are still living in their places of residence in the Palestinian Territory
