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For persons 10 years old or older (born until July 31, 1990)
[Applies to questions 4.36 - 4.61]


4.47 The work was

[] 1 domestic work with signed worker's card (carteira de trabalho assinada) (go to 4.51)
[] 2 domestic work with no signed worker's card (go to 4.50)
[] 3 employee with signed worker's card (go to 4.51)
[] 4 employee with no signed worker's card (go to 4.48)
[] 5 employer (go to 4.49)
[] 6 self-employed (go to 4.50)
[] 7 apprentice or intern without remuneration (go to 4.51)
[] 8 unpaid help for member of household (go to 4.51)
[] 9 worker in production for own consumption (go to 4.53)

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For persons age 10 or over (born on or before July 31, 1990)
[Applies to questions 4.36 - 4.61]


Position in the occupation

Position in the occupation is understood as the labor relationship existing between the person and the organization where he or she worked.

Question 4.47 - In this work, were you :

Mark, as the case may be:

1 - A legally registered domestic employee - for persons who provided remunerated domestic services in one or more households and were legally registered in at least one of them;
2 - Domestic worker without legally signed contract - for persons who provided remunerated domestic services in one or more households without a legally signed contract;


[pg. 125]

3 - Employee with a legally signed contract - for persons who worked for an employer (natural or legal organization) generally agreeing to comply with established working hours and receiving, in return, a remuneration in monetary values, merchandise, products, or benefits, such as housing, food, clothing, etc., with a legally signed contract.
4 - Employee without a legally signed contract - for persons who worked for an employer (individual or organization), generally agreeing to comply with established working hours and receiving, in return, remuneration in monetary values, merchandise, products, or benefits such as housing, food, clothing, etc., without a legally signed contract.


Note: Regardless of having a legally signed contract or not, the following are also considered employees:
  • Persons rendering obligatory military service;
  • Priests, church ministers, rabbis, friars, nuns and other clerics, and
  • Remunerated apprentices or trainees.


[pg. 126]

5 - Employer - for persons who worked in their own enterprise with at least one employee;
6 - Self-employed - for persons who worked in their own enterprise, alone or with a partner and without having any employees but who may have received help from a non-remunerated worker;
7 - Non-remunerated apprentice or trainee - for persons who exercised an occupation without remuneration, where they learned a profession or trade in a obligatory or volunteer training program without remuneration related to a profession;
8 - Not remunerated in helping a member of the household - for persons who worked without remuneration in helping a member of the household, who was employed in the production of primary goods (which includes activities of farming, cattle raising, silviculture, plant and mineral extraction, hunting, fishing or fish raising) or in helping in the work of a member of the household who was self-employed or an employer in any activity; and
9 - Worker in production for one's own consumption - for persons who worked in the production of goods in the area that includes the activities of farming, silviculture, cattle raising, plant extraction, fishing and fish raising, destined exclusively for providing food for at least one resident of the household.