Interviewer instructions
Section G. Personal income
The current income that the household interviewed receives through each one of its members is of principal importance in this investigation.
Given that a same person can receive income coming from more than one source, all the interviewees should be consulted for all the items that appear on the questionnaire.
The investigation of the personal income has been organized in groups of questions attending to the different origins of them, and will be asked to all the members of the household age 14 or older, independently of whether or not they are working. If income obtained by those [persons] younger than this age it will be added to those of the head of the household and noted in the observations.
[p. 61]
The chapter on personal income consists of three groups of questions that investigate about the personal income of each member of the household.
The first block investigates the income derived from the dependent work, that is, from the labor activities that are performed under the direction of an employer.
The second block investigates the income derived from independent work, that is, from work that is performed when the worker is the boss of his own company, works on his own account and/or has personnel under his charge.
In each block, there first appears a collection of questions that reveal the information for the main occupation. Afterwards, the same questions are repeated to investigate about the other occupations.
The third block of questions (income from transfers) captures personal income that doesn't come from work.
It doesn't consist of only obtaining income from work if the person indicates being occupied, or by retirement if the person informs you that he is retired, since he can receive other income that only will be captured if you complete this section of the questionnaire.
Once these three blocks have been revealed to the member of the household, perform the sequence of questions in reference to the other member. Upon finishing the block of questions of "Personal income" for all the members of the household, you will go on to chapter H.
Before establishing some guidelines to carry out the interview of this section, it's pertinent to define some concepts of interest.
What is a recipient of income?
This is all members of the household age 14 or older that in some moment of the reference period of this chapter of the survey (the last 12 months) received some current income.
What is a current income?
This is the collection of all monetary and non-monetary income (in-kind) that the members of the household receive for the performance of a job; the property of real assets; the property of financial assets; current transfers; including the value of one's own production (non-industrialized products) that the households perform for their own consumption
What is a monetary income?
It is the income that is received under the form of money.
What is a non-monetary income?
It can happen that in addition to the remuneration of money a worker receives a payment in-kind. This forms part of the labor income of the worker.
Nonmonetary income is denominated the income that is received in some form different from money.
In the case of the workers that receive alimentation or clothing in his place of work, or that receives products from the firm to bring household, as well as the reimbursement that the firm gives out because of expenses paid by the receiver in goods or services for personal consumption or that of the household (ex: fuel, car insurance, food, transportation, etc.).
[p. 62]
In these cases the goods or services that correspond should be estimated according to their market value.
Income from transfers
(received from other entities)
[p. 68]
The questions in this block seek to reveal the personal income that is not directly related to the present job of the people. In some cases, where the one responsible of the benefit is a person younger than 14, the record corresponds to the person who has the faculty for making the said transfer, as in the case of a family payment or pension that bypasses a divorced father who doesn't live with his son.
148. Did you receive food payments or some contribution from divorce or separation?
This constitutes the income that is received from another household (ex. partner) since it isn't a member of this household. This amount can have been determined judicially or in a mutual agreement between both. It will distinguish between the alimony payments coming from the country and those from abroad.
