Interviewer instructions
3.31 Employment status
Employment status refers to the status that the person is occupying in a working place or in a business. Employment status can be divided into the following categories.
3.31.1 Employers refer to those who run their business and hire other people to work as employees.
Employers in this sense do not include those who hire someone to cook, clean, do laundry, and baby-sit, etc.
Example 1: Mr. Som owns a restaurant and hires Miss Samorn as a chef of the restaurant. Mr. Som is regarded as an employer.
Example 2: Mr. Chart owns a coffee shop and hires Mrs. Chusri to cook for Mr. Chart's household. Mr. Chart is not considered as an employer.
3.31.2 Employees mean those who work for the others and receive wages or get paid on monthly, daily, or product-piece basis, or service fees from employers. Wages can be in the form of money or other materials.
Employees can be divided into 2 categories.
a. "Government employees" refers to government officials and workers, state enterprise's workers, employees of government agencies, international organizations, municipality, and local organizations
b. "Private employees" refers to those who work for private companies or private businesses. Those who work in households such as doing laundry, baby sitting, cooking are also considered private employees.
3.31.3 Private business owner without employee means those who are self-employed and do business for profit. They may work alone or work with others for dividends, but they do not hire others to be employees in their business. They may have relatives or trainees working with them, but the relatives or trainees do not receive any wage or allowance.
Example 1: Mrs. Me has a hair salon and a tailor shop at home, where she works alone. Mrs. Me is regarded as a private business owner without employees.
Example 2: Mrs. Me has a hair salon and a tailor shop at home. Mrs. Me has Miss Sri as a partner, and their share the profits. Both Mrs. Me and Miss Sri are considered as private business owners without employees.
Example 3: Mrs. Me has a hair salon and a tailor shop at home, and she has Miss Som who is her daughter as her assistant. Mrs. Me does not pay any wage to Miss Som. Mrs. Me is regarded as private business owner without employees, and Miss Som is a worker in the household business without receiving any wage.
Example 4: Mr. Daeng, his wife, and their 3 children together plough and plant rice in their own rice farm. They ask for help from their neighbors to help in harvesting. Mr. Daeng is regarded as a private business owner without employees, and his wife and children are workers in the household business without receiving any wage.
3.31.4 Household business assistants without wages refer to those who work in the household activities without receiving wages in the agricultural activities or in business. Their household members may own and run the business, and the household business assistants may work for any time period.
Example 1: Mr. Korn helps his father in the garage owned by his father, and Mr. Korn does not get paid nor receives any dividends.
Example 2: Mr. Chom lives in Mr. Chob (his brother)'s house, and he helps Mr. Chob in farming without getting paid.
Both Mr. Korn and Mr. Chom are regarded as household business assistants without wages. If anyone is paid or receives allowance, they will be regarded as private employees.
[From column 17 to column 24, ask only persons age 11 years or older.]
If working in Column 22, answer in columns 23 and 24.
Column 24: Work Status (see details in chapter 3 number 3.31)
Ask: "What was the person's work status?" Record the work status from one of the following categories:
Employer
Business owner without employee
Government employee
Private employee
Unpaid family worker
