40. In the last week, did you...?

The criteria for collecting economic data about the population are:

The population's economic characteristics being researched in the census are the type of activity, the principal occupation, the branch of economic activity, and the occupational category or job position (see Appendix).

39, 40, 41. Type of activity
The type of activity defines the person's relationship with the activity the person performed in the week before Census Day. Depending on the type of activity, the person may be economically active or economically inactive. However, people who were economically active and had work in the week before Census Day are considered employed people, and if they are seeking work they are unemployed people. The reference period is the week before Census Day. Questions 39, 40, and 41 allow us to identify, first of all, the economically active population and economically inactive population; then, among the economically active people, we can identify the employed people and unemployed people; among the unemployed people we can distinguish between people seeking work who had worked before the reference week and people seeking work for the first time; and lastly, among the economically inactive people, the questions let us identify homemakers and full-time students, as well as retirees, pensioners, and annuitants. Read out the multiple choices for questions 40 and 41 in order until you get an affirmative response. When this happens, go to the question indicated as the next one.