All persons 12 years and over
[Questions A16-A26]
A24. What was [the person's] working as during the past 7 days?
[] 01 Employee (paid cash)
[] 02 Employee (paid in kind)
[] 03 Self-employed (no employees)
[] 04 Self-employed (with employees)
[] 06 Unpaid family helper
[] 07 Working at lands/cattle posts
109b.
Column A16-A26: These questions apply only to persons aged 12 years and more. If the person is under 12 years of age, then when you reach column A16 you should put dashes in the shaded areas for columns A16 -- A32 and proceed to the next listed person in the household.
113. Column A23: Employment status
Q: What was [the person's] work status during the past 7 days?
This column relates to persons who were either self-employed or working for other persons for payment during the 30 days before the census. Find out what they were employed as during most of the reference period and probe if necessary.
Enter the appropriate one-digit code in the shaded area:
[] 01 Employee-Paid cash
A person who does a job and receives cash or money in exchange for the job done is an employee who is paid in cash.
[] 02 Employee-Paid in kind
A person may be working in a family business without receiving any cash payment for his labour. For example, a woman runs a small kiosk from which she sells snacks to office workers. Her younger brother helps her there, but instead of paying him a wage she gives him a bag of mealie meal and some other food each month. This is the kind of payment referred to as payment in kind.
[] 03 Self Employed (No employees)
This is where by the person is running his/her own business, like a taxi or a tuck shop, without the assistance of any employee. This category includes those Gardeners and Cleaners who are freelancing.
[] 04 Self Employed (With employees):
A person may be operating a business of any form with the assistance of one or more employees. The employees could be paid in cash or in kind.
[] 05 Member of the producers' cooperative
People, who serve the cooperatives either for payment or for other reward falls in this category.
[] 06 Working in Family business (Unpaid)
A person may be working in an economic enterprise operated by a relative; such would fall under this category. For example, a boy could be helping in his father's business and as such there would be no payment.
[] 07 Lands/Farms/Cattle post:
This category includes farmers who grow mainly for household consumption (rather than to sell their products), and those individuals who worked at farms, lands or cattle-posts but who did not receive any payment.
[] 08 Apprentices
Included in this group are boys or girls who are working in a company, or with any expert individual in a particular field with the aim of acquiring knowledge. These are normally not charged for the knowledge they are acquiring and they are not paid for the help they are providing.
[] Other (specify):
If the person was doing something else other than the possibilities listed above, then write in what the person was doing in the unshaded area in column A23. If you need more space, use the comments box.
If a person says he was doing "nothing" during the past 7 days, probe to find out what the person was really doing. It is very unlikely that the person was literally doing nothing.
If a person says he does housework, or that he is a student/retired/other, probe to find out whether he did any work for cash during the past 7 days, no matter how little the cash or how short the period. If yes, go back to A21and A22 to correct codes to reflect that they worked for pay or for no pay accordingly.
In the example since all eligible persons have never been married they are coded 1. Maungo is coded 01 in A21 as she was a paid worker, while it was admitted by the respondent in A22 that Mothus did agricultural activities at the lands or cattle post for no pay. Maungo was working as an employee who was paid in cash, Mothusi and Mmantsheledi worked at the lands for no pay. Mmantsheledi was at the same time looking for job, as such she is coded code 05, "Jobseeker" in A21 and code 04 in A22. The skip instruction for Mmantsheledi in A22 takes her to A26, so dashes for her row were used in A23, A24 and A25.
[Table showing economic activity to all persons aged 12 years and over is omitted here]