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III Economic Characteristics

Only for those 12 years of age and older.


15. Occupational category:

For those who answered 0, 1 and 2 in question number 13.

What position did you have in the occupation or job indicated above?

[] 1 Employer or owner
[] 2 Own-account worker
[] 3 Employee (professional or white-collar)
[] 4 Manual laborer or day laborer
[] 5 Domestic employee
[] 6 Unpaid family worker
[] 7 Unknown

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Question No. 15--Occupational Category

This question will only be asked of those people who responded with boxes 0, 1, and 2 to question 13.

You will mark one of the following alternatives, as appropriate:

1) Employer or boss: If the person being enumerated ran their own business, or practiced a profession or trade on their own and had one or more wage-earning or salaried employees or manual laborers during the week of April 13 to 18.

2) Own-account worker: If the person ran their own company or practiced a profession or trade on their own, but did not have any wage-earning or salaried employees or manual laborers during the week of April 13 to 18.

3) Employee: A person who works for an employer or boss and makes their tax contributions [imposiciones] to an Employees' Social Security Fund [Caja de Previsión de Empleados], as for example the Private Employees' Fund, the Public Employees Fund, etc.

4) Manual Laborer or Day-Laborer: A person who works for an employer and contributes to the Social Security Service or another Manual Laborer Social Security Fund.

If the person doesn't make contributions or doesn't know which fund they contribute to, the person should be classified as an employee or manual laborer based on whether intellectual or physical effort, respectively, prevail in their work.

5) Domestic Worker: If the person worked for an employer or boss and worked at activities related to household service during the week of April 13 to 18 and received compensation in the form of a salary.

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6) Unpaid family member: If the person worked, during the week of April 13 to 18, without compensation in a business run by a relative, for at least a third of the normal work week.

For those who worked previously but were unemployed during the week of April 13 to 18, record the category (employee, manual laborer, etc.) that they had in their last occupation.