Literal question
Questions 20-23 are to be completed only by persons who answered 1 or 2 to question 19. For persons looking for another job, the last occupation should be registered
21 Professional status
[] 1 Employer
[] 2 Own account
[] 3 Worker
[] 4 Employee
[] 5 Member of cooperative association
[] 6 Unpaid family worker
[] 7 Other situation
Interviewer instructions
78. Q. 20 - 23 from chapter IV of the form will be completed only for persons who at Q. 19 - "Economic status of the enumerated person" - were classified under code 1 - occupied - or code 2 - seeking another place of work. For the latter (code 2) the previous situation will be recorded at Q. 20-23.
For persons who at Q. 19 had been recorded with one of the codes from 3 to 9, Q. 20-23 will be crossed over with a diagonal line.
Q. 21 Professional status
80. Professional status describes the position of a person related to the way of obtaining income for employment at the work place.
This characteristic will be recorded for all persons registered as having an occupation at Q. 20. Persons looking for another work place (code 2, Q. 19), those temporarily absent from work, as well as those detained or retained for questioning, will be recorded with their previous employment status.
The reporting codes are:
Code 1:Employer, private enterprise owner - for persons working in their own enterprise (commercial company, agency, shop, office, firm etc.) with one or more employees.
Code 2: Own account worker : for persons working in their own enterprise (commercial company, agency, shop, office, firm etc.) or independently, not having any engaged employees, with the exception of possible assistance by un -paid members of the household or relatives. Included here are farmers in their own households, tutors, craftsmen, independent professionals (medical doctors in their own clinic, lawyers, musicians, artists, independent accountants, translators), traders, and independent providers of service laborer (taxi drivers, independent carriers etc.).
Code 3: Employee - engaged - for persons performing an activity in a socio-economic enterprise (regardless of the ownership form) in which the job is based on a contract of work for pay in cash or in kind, or commissions, etc.
Also included here as employees are:
Conscripts on compulsory military service;
Persons permanently engaged by private individuals for housekeeping work (child care or senior care, for domestic work, etc.).
Code 4: Member of a cooperative association - for persons who are active members of an agricultural association or craft , consumption or credit cooperative.
Code 5: Unpaid family worker - for persons who perform an income generating activity in a family economic unit run by a household member, for which the person does not receive remuneration, such as wages, payment in kind, as an employee performing the same activity would receive, and who is a member of the household.
Code 6: Other situation - for persons who can't be classified in the above mentioned categories (codes from 1 to 5).
