Has a job/business but temporarily did not work during the past one week?
Categories
Value
Category
1
Yes
2
No
Sysmiss
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Circle one of code 1 or 2. When answered Code 1 proceed directly to Question 8.
Question post text
If answered "Yes" (code 1), proceed to Q8.
Description
Definition
- Temporarily absent from work/doing business, but having job/business: an activity done by persons who were having a job/business, but temporarily absent from work/business for some reasons during the week of the survey, i.e. because of sick, on leave, study, waiting for harvest season, on strike, etc. Including those who have been accepted to work but during the past week has not started work.
- Classified as having a job but temporarily absent from work/business:
a. non professional workers not working due to illness and waiting for the next job, as the puppet master, masseuse, etc.
b. permanent Workers, Government or private employees which is not working due to leave, sickness, absent, on strike, or stopped temporarily because the company stopped its activities temporarily.
c. farmers who cultivates farmland not working due to illness or waiting for the next job as wait for the harvest or the rainy season to manage the fields.