Literal question
For persons twelve years old or more
16. Work situation in 1969. Mark with an X
In the main employment that this person had in 1969:
[] 1 Worked in a family business without pay
[] 2 Worked as boss, businessman or employer
[] 3 Worked as a day laborer or rural agricultural laborer
[] 4 Worked as a laborer or employee
[] 5 Self employed
[] 6 Common land agricultural worker (ejidatario)
Interviewer instructions
Position at work in 1969
Column 16
This question refers to the situation or category of the person in relation to their job or principal employment. Read the question and each of the alternatives until finding the position in which the person found themselves.
Following are the definitions for each of the positions:
[Drawing] "Works in a family business without receiving pay"
A person who, during the months that he/she worked in 1969, worked at least 15 hours per week without receiving pay in a farm, workshop, business, or other type of economic activity directed or owned by a family member. Examples: the wife of a worker of common land, who helps him in the field labor; the relative of the owner of a store, who helped him in his business, etc.
[Drawing]
[P. 47]
[Drawing] "Worked as a boss, manager, or employer"
A person who, during the year 1969, worked in their own business or company (solely or associated) or independently exercised a profession, occupation, or office, always when they employed one or more people in relation to their business, office, or profession, and gave them pay or salary in cash. Examples: a medic who worked in his/her private office and employed a nurse or a secretary; the owner of a factory who employed laborers, etc.
[Drawing] "Works as a journeyman or farm laborer"
A person who worked in agriculture or livestock, and who carried out predominantly manual labor, in exchange for a daily wage or salary in cash. Examples: a person who worked by day in the harvesting of corn; a person who worked for a salary milking cows, etc.
[P. 48]
[Drawing] "Works as a laborer or employee"
A person who worked in exchange for pay or salary in cash in service to a boss, business, or institution. Examples: a construction worker, a secretary, etc.
[Drawing] "Self Employed"
A person who has their own business, profession, office or occupation (solely or associated) without being at the orders of a boss and without utilizing laborers or employees for pay or salary, although they could have family who worked without pay or apprentices without pay. Examples: a taxi driver, a person who sold fruit in the market, etc.
[P. 49]
[Drawing]
To mark the circle in front of "worker of common land [ejidatario] it is necessary that the person have had at least three characteristics: 1) That he/she have had the legal character of worker of common land; 2) That they have had a common land parcel; and 3) That their work on that land have supplied the majority of their income in 1969. If they were without one of these characteristics this circle should not be marked; for example: if they did not have the legal character of common land worker, or they had not received their parcel of common land, or if they did not use it despite having it, etc. In these cases the position that corresponds to employment or principal job should be marked, and not that of "worker of common land."
