Literal question
42. [] What is your current activity status?
[] Employed
[] Self-employed
[] Farmer
[] Child, pupil, student
[] Pensioner
[] Contributing family member (on a family farm, family enterprise)
[] Unemployed
[] In the national military service
[] Homemaker
[] Unable to work due to old age, disease, disability
[] Serving a term in prison
[] Other (write in): activity status ____
Interviewer instructions
42 What is you current activity status?
Employed is marked by the enumerator for:
Persons in paid employment in companies, enterprises and organisations,
Persons employed by self-employed persons,
Persons performing public works.
All persons with employment contracts belong in this group.
Self-employed is marked by the enumerator for:
Individual private entrepreneurs,
Own account workers (e.g. lawyers, cultural workers, independent researchers).
Farmer is marked by the enumerator for:
Farmers, holders of agricultural holdings who have pension and health insurance,
Members of agricultural holdings who have pension and health insurance,
Farmers and members of agricultural holdings who only have health insurance.
Child, pupil, student is marked by the enumerator for:
Persons who by the 2002 Census reference date have not completed 15 years of age,
Persons who are older than 15 but are in education and are not employed, self-employed or farmers.
Pensioner is marked by the enumerator for persons receiving pensions:
According to regulations in the Republic of Slovenia,
From a foreign pension insurance carrier,
Recipients of maintenance allowances for farmers.
Contributing family member (on a family farm, family enterprise) is marked by the enumerator for persons who are formally not employed, self-employed or farmers but work on a family farm, in a family craft establishment, family enterprise or some other form of family gainful activity and as a rule do not receive regular payment for their work.
Unemployed is marked by the enumerator for persons who are registered as unemployed at the Employment Service of Slovenia.
In the national military service is marked by the enumerator for persons who are in regular or civilian military service.
Homemaker is marked by the enumerator for persons who are engaged in housework and can not be included in any of the above answers.
Unable to work due to old age, disease, disability is marked by the enumerator for persons who are unable to work due to age, illness or disability and do not have their own means of livelihood.
Serving a term in prison is marked by the enumerator for persons in prison or in a correction facility or educational establishment.
Other is marked by the enumerator for persons who do not belong in any of the above categories. In this case the enumerator enters the activity status (e.g. rentier, top athlete, etc.), but only if the persons has no employment contract, is not self-employed or a farmer, inactive due to personal or family reasons, etc.
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Persons in paid employment, self-employed persons or farmers who are at the same time full-time or part-time students are counted among persons in paid employment, self-employed persons or farmers.
People receiving pensions are counted among pensioners and not:
Among persons in paid employment if they work part-time;
Among farmers if they receive pension and at the same time work on the farm;
Among persons unable to work due to old age, disease or disability.
The following people are not pensioners:
Children in education receiving family pension;
People receiving partial pension (old-age pensioners who are partially retired and partially in employment relationship working part-time). They are counted among persons in paid employment or self-employed;
Persons receiving partial pension (old-age pensioners who are partially retired and partially unemployed). They are counted among unemployed persons.
