Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Basic)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">I. Occupation information</span></p>
<p>1b. Although you already told me that [the respondent] did not work last week, does he/she have a job or business or is he/she self-employed?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No (skip to 2)</div>
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h2">7.3 Set of questions I. Employment status</span>
<br />The purpose of this set of questions is to identify those who worked during the reference period, regardless of the number of jobs performed in case of having more than one, and to determine who, despite not having worked during said period, have one.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications
<br />Consider a person to perform an economic activity only if the person worked during the reference week, at least one hour during said period, or if the person did not work during said period, but had a job.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Cecilia worked the week before the interview.<br />- Adrian did not attend his job, but had a leave from ISSSTE to care for one of his children who was sick.</div><p>Regardless of the condition of legality or illegality with which an economic unit operates, both are entered, from the perspective of ENOE, within the framework of economic activity.
<br />The following table includes examples of the types of activities considered economic and non-economic, and the pertinent explanation:</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 1b</span>
<br />This question is asked to those who state they have not worked in the reference week, to find out if they have a job to which they are going to return (temporarily absent from their occupation) or to which they are going to go for the first time (starters).</p>
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<p>Conceptual clarifications:</p>
<p>Starter. Person who did not have a job in the reference week, but had the expectation of entering or starting one during the week the survey is conducted.</p>
<p>Absent from the occupation. Person who states to have a job, work or own business, but did not go to work during the reference period.</p>
<p>This question identifies:</p>
<div class="i1">- People who have a job, but who, for any reason, were absent during the reference period; and<br />- People who say they now have one, but they don't have one hundred percent certainty that they are effectively going to be incorporated into it.</div><p>In the second case, it doesn't matter if the starter conducted an active search for a job or if a job was offered to them. In both cases, the interviewee's spontaneous response must be respected. The following questions will allow you to corroborate if they effectively have a job or not. This way you will avoid contaminating the sequence of employed people, where a future event could hide the real situation of the employment status of the interviewees during the reference period.</p>
<p>Instruction:</p>
<div class="i1">- Sequence to follow. If you circle option 1, go to question 1c; if you circle option 2, continue with question 2.</div>
