Literal question
The following questions should only be completed for persons born in 1980 or earlier.
15. What was he/she doing during the previous week (March 10-16)?
-Every person who worked for even one hour during the previous week, either for pay or without pay in the family business, should answer "working." The same applies to persons who had a job from which they were temporarily absent during the specified week. This includes those who had a job (either as an employee or as a self-employed person) and those who normally work in the family business without pay but who did not work at all during the previous week, due to a temporary reason such as sickness, leave of absence, poor weather conditions, or an absence of seasonal work (e.g., for a farmer).
-Every person who was seeking work during the previous week and who was ready to accept work that was offered should answer "looking for work." This is true regardless of whether persons were seeking work because they had been dismissed or they had finished a job or the business where they worked had closed or they were looking for a first job.
-Keeping house, student, etc.: People not in the labor force during the previous week (i.e., neither working nor temporarily absent from a job, as in answer 1, nor looking for work, as in answer 2) should specify their main non-labor force activity, selecting one of the answers numbered 3-7. Every person who is mainly occupied in keeping house or who is primarily a pupil or student or conscript or pensioner (answers 3-6) and who also worked during the previous week, even for one hour, should give one of the answers 3, 4, 5 or 6 as well as 1, i.e., "working." (In such cases, two answers are admissible.)
[] 1 Working
[] 2 Looking for work
[] 3 Keeping house
[] 4 Pupil or student
[] 5 Conscript
[] 6 Pensioner
[] 7 Other ___ (specify)
Interviewer instructions
The following questions (12-25) were answered only by individuals born in 1980 or before.
12. Level of education
[As in the form, omitted]
13.
[As in the form, omitted]
The question was clear and without problems. In the case of graduates of a foreign educational institution the code of the respective Greek educational institution was checked.
15. What was his/her occupation during the previous week (10-16 March)?
Working- [as in the form, omitted]
Individuals which left or lost their job even one day before the census taking were not considered as working.
Job seeker [as in the form, omitted]
Individuals that were ready to take offered jobs and that during the last four (4) weeks took initiatives towards finding work (applying in companies, registering in the OAED, participating in competitions, answering or placing adds, asking for the help of friends and relations etc.).
Individuals who did not work but were available and had agreed to work at a future date from the reference period were considered as seeking work as well as the individuals that were available and were trying to seek work.
If the individual did not give any of these two answers (working, seeking work) the cases 3-7, economically non active, were checked. [As in the form, omitted]
