Interviewer instructions
Note: The following questions (from B16 to B19) apply to all persons aged 6 years and above. Write an oblique hyphen for the persons who are less than 6 years of age.
B19. Work status
Ask the following question: "What is your situation in the occupation that you have declared at the previous question?"
Circle "1 EM" for employer. An employer is a person who employs salaried people, that he or she is paying in cash or in kind, or both ways.
Note: The persons who pay maids are not considered as employers.
Circle "2 IN" for self employed. These are persons who work on their own (for their own sake), and who have no employees that he or she pays, but who may possibly utilize family aids or apprentices.
Circle "3 SA" for salaried persons. This is the case of a person who works for an employer, private or public, and who receives a payment (a salary or a commission, in cash or in kind), whether regular or not. Are also considered as salaried the agricultural seasonal worker [sourgha] who is paid in part or completely in cash or in kind.
Circle "4 ST" for trainees. He or she just completed a school, technical or vocational, and is looking for acquiring a work experience in his or her skills. They are generally students in national schools and institutes of technology or university institutes. The persons who are following a training prior being hired are not considered as salaried, but rather as trainees. The students who have not yet completed their coursus are not considered as trainees, even if they follow a training path in an industrial company, a bank or any production unit.
A trainee is therefore a person who has completed his or her studies, who works in a company, where he or she has not been hired, but who is rather looking for acquiring a certain work experience, or for consolidating his or her competence.
Circle "5 AF" for family aid. A family aid is a person who works for a relative, without receiving a payment.
Circle "6 AP" for apprentice. An apprentice is a person who learns a skill. He or she may receive a regular payment, in cash or in kind, or may not receive a payment while still getting occasionally little gifts, or even may be paying his or her employer for learning a skill.
Circle "7 AU" for other cases.
