Interviewer instructions
109. <span class="em">Women doing housework</span>. In the case of woman doing housework in her own home, without salary or wages, and having no other employment, the entry in column 17 should be 'none.' But a woman working at housework for wages should be returned in column 17 as housekeeper, servant, cook, chambermaid, etc., as the case may be; and the entry in column 22 should state the kind of place where she works, as private family, hotel, or boarding house. Or if a woman, in addition to doing housework in her own home, regularly earns money by some other occupation, whether pursued in her own home or outside, the kind of occupation should be stated in column 17 and the place where employed in column 22. For instance, a woman who regularly takes in washing should be reported as laundress or washerwoman in column 17, and the entry 'at home'' should be made in column 22.</p>
<p>110. <span class="em">Children working for parents</span>. Children of ten years of age and over who work for their parents at home at general household work, or on the farm, or at any other work or chores, when attending school, should not be recorded as having an occupation. Those, however, who spend the major portion of their time at home, and who materially assist their parents in .the performance of work other than household duties, should be reported as of the occupation in which their time is employed.</p>
<p>119. <span class="em">Working on own account</span>. Persons who are employed in gainful occupations and who are neither employers nor employees are considered to be working on their own account, and the entry 'O.A.' for (own account) made in column 21. Such persons as farmers physicians, lawyers, small storekeepers, country blacksmiths, etc., who employ no helpers,-in short, independent workers who neither receive pay, salaries nor regular wages-are to be classed as working on own account. Dressmakers, washerwomen, laundresses or other persons of similar occupations who work out by the day are employees, but if they perform the work in their own, home or shop they are to be classed as working on own account unless they employ helpers, in which case they are to be returned as employers.</p>
<p>120. <span class="em">Domestic gainful and non-gainful occupations</span>. If married women or other female dependents or children of ten years or over carry on a gainful or wage-earning occupation in any capacity, the kind of occupation will be given, and they will be classed as employers or employees as the case may be; but if they are only carrying on domestic affairs in a household without wages they are not to be classed as having any occupation.
