Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Basic)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">II. Unemployment</span></p>
<p>2h. Has [the respondent] ever worked...</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options and circle the one mentioned by the respondent)<br /><br />[] 1 For a wage/salary?<br />[] 2 By his/her own means (self-employed)?<br />[] 3 Helping someone else with their business or economic activity?<br />[] 4 Has never worked (skip to 9)<br />[] 9 Doesn't know (skip to 9)<br />[] 0 For data input use only</div>
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h2">7.4 Battery II. Not employees</span>
<br />The general purpose of this battery of questions is to characterize the not employed population, based on whether or not they are seeking a job and are willing to join one, and to identify if they have work experience.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2</span>
<br />This question is asked to not employed persons to find out if they tried to find a job or start an independent job and to further identify whether the search took place in the country or abroad.
<br />[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications</p>
<div class="i1">Not employed persons. People who did not work during the reference week nor did they have a job.<br />Search for work. Actions taken by not employed people to try to obtain a job or start some independent work.</div><p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2h</span>
<br />This question is asked to not employed persons, to identify those who have work experience and those who do not.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />Not employed persons with work experience. People who did not work or have a job in the reference week, and stated they had worked in at least one previously.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- Meaning of the concept of having worked at some point in their life. In the case of homemakers and the elderly, explain that it does not matter how much time has passed or the position of the job they performed when working (salaried, self-employed or unpaid worker), say that you are only interested in knowing if they went to work when they were children or young people or when they were single.<br />- Multiple responses. Don't forget that this question admits more than one response, as you may find that a person could have started their working life as an unpaid worker, then salaried and later self-employed or any combination of these work experiences.<br />- Circle the option(s) indicated.<br />- Sequence to follow. If you circle option 1, 2 or 3, go to question 9a; if you circle option 4 or 9, go to question 10.</div>
