Literal question
For all people 16 years of age or older
[Applies to questions 8 -18]
12. Do you work without pay by helping another person in his/her profession (for example a member of your family)?
[] 1 Yes
[] No
13. Do you practice your main declared profession as:
[] 2 Farmer
[] 3 Member of a free-market profession
[] 4 Employer or self-employed worker: artisan, merchant, industrial worker, etc. (working for yourself, including managers of the S.A.R.L [Société à responsabilité limitée] and people not working except on commission)
[] 5 Working at home for yourself for one (or more) companies
[] 6 Apprenticed under contract
[] 7 Paid
17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:
a. For how long have you been looking for work?
[] 1 less than 3 months
[] 2 3 to less than 6 months
[] 3 6 months to less than a year
[] 4 one year or more
b. Have you already worked?
[] Yes
[] No
c. What is your career? ____
Interviewer instructions
[Questions 8 - 18 are for persons age 16 or older]
Question 12: People working to help another person in their profession without being paid.
It sometimes happens that some people - especially women - work by helping another person in his profession, without receiving a salary for it. These people will answer "yes" to question 12, even if they only work part time in these situations.
For example, this question effects the wife of a farmer who participates in the work of the farm, the wife or daughter of a merchant who spends several hours per day in the shop to ensure the sales or to operate the cash register.
These people should indicate the profession which they practice on question 11.
Question 13: Professional status.
Category 5: "Worker at home for a total of one or more businesses" does not allow for people who work at their home for their own business (artisans, sewers, stylists). This category applies on the other hand to people who do work at their home, often as they will, for the affairs of an industrial or commercial establishment who reimburses them for this. Such is the case, for example of some newspapers designers, of people working for clothing industries or performing secretarial work for the affairs of some administrations, etc.
Paid managers should check box 7 even when they are partially reimbursed in the form of commiseration.
Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.
This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:
a) do not have a job:
b) are actively looking for work.
Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.
