Data from the Extended Household Questionnaire of the 1991 Dominican Republic Demographic and Health Survey provided new findings on labor force participation and migration. The survey considered as unemployed not only individuals who sought work in the week preceding the survey, but also those available and willing to work for pay who hadn't actually looked for a job. The broadened definition of unemployment was intended to take into account discouraged job seekers. The economic activity rate and unemployment rate respectively were 67.9 and 26.2% for both sexes, 80.9 and 11.8% for men, and 55.2 and 46.7% for women at the national level; 68.8 and 27.4% for both sexes, 78.9 and 13.6% for men, and 60.0 and 43.0% for women in urban areas; and 66.5 and 24.2% for both sexes, 83.6% and 9.5% for men, and 46.6 and 54.9% for women in rural areas. the inclusion of discouraged job seekers in the definition of unemployment resulted in a higher proportion of women than shown in previous surveys. But the lower rate for men compared to previous surveys suggests that open unemployment for men has declined in recent years. The lower unemployment rate for men may reflect the increasing numbers who have sought self-employment in marginal activities in the tertiary sector in response to the country's grave economic crisis. 50.1% of all persons aged 10 or over carried out some productive work in the reference week. Persons disposed to work who did not seek work comprised 23.4% of the labor force, amounting to 45.1% of women and 8.2% of men. 41% of the unemployed had been disposed to work for more than one year. 25% of the labor force was employed in agriculture and 31.5% in services. 36% of males were in agriculture, while over 50% of women were in services. 46.1% of men and 67.0% of women worked for wages or salaries, 38.3% of men and 24.1% of women were self-employed, and 10.6% of men and 6.2% of women were unpaid family workers. At the time of the 1991 survey, 34.3% of the native-born population resided in a place different from that of birth. The proportion of migrants was about 40% in urban areas and 26% in rural areas. 57% of internal migrants were born in urban areas. 9.9% of females and 7.4% of males over age 5 lived in a different locale than their residence of five years earlier. 59.4% had lived in an urban area, 35.0% in a rural area, and 1.6% in a different country. 55.2% of internal migrants were female. 46.0% of internal migrants and 40.3% of the general population was aged 15-64 years. 37.8% of migrants and 49.9% of nonmigrants were under 15. Economic activity rates for the population over age 10 were 65.8% for nonmigrants and 70.5% for migrants, while unemployment rates were 28.5% for nonmigrants and 23.9% for migrants. 16.7% of households surveyed in the Expanded Household Questionnaire had members who lived or had lived abroad.