14. General classification - Mark the appropriate box

Line No. 14.- General classification

By means of the mark that you make in the appropriate box, the whole population will be classified, agreeing with its primary occupational characteristics.

You should only mark one box for each person. Ask what a person does and then include it in the line that corresponds, according to the following definitions that are given:

Employed: is each person 12 years old or older who, during the reference period (March 1963), has worked for at least 6 days or work days. If they were absent from their job because of vacations, sickness, involuntary stoppage of work or strike, consider them as employed. Take them as such, since by having worked an occupation they have received or not, directly or indirectly, a payment in cash, in kind, or in both forms.

Student: is any person 12 years old or older who is dedicated exclusively to studying. If a person as well as studying, worked 6 or more days during the reference period (March 1963) consider them as "employed".

Unemployed: is all persons 12 years old or older capable of working (that is to say, they worked before and look for work) not one who looked for it for the first time), who during the month of March 1963 did not work any occupation, for at least 6 days or work days.

If a person12 years old or older, capable of working, worked less than 6 days or work days in the month of March, write them down as "Unemployed".

If a person 12 years old or older, capable of working, is not working on the date of the Census, or when the enumerator interviews them, but worked for a space of 6 or more days or work days in the month of March, they should be classified as "Employed", since this information does not refer to the date of the Census nor to the interview that the enumerator did, but rather that there is for them a period of reference: the month of March 1963.

Keep in mind that in this group also are included all persons, capable of working, who did not work during the reference period; therefore do not include here the incapacitated (blind, paralytic, etc.), who do not work due to their physical condition, nor pensioners, who are included in another group.

Domestic Craft: In this group are included women 12 years old or older who dedicate their time to chores of the home and do not work any other occupation, except pensioners or retirees. Generally they are understood to be a mother or daughters, also any other relative who resides in the Dwelling.

Servants and other employees are "Employed" and should be written down as such in the form.

Other: You should include in this group all persons 12 years old or older who are not included in the previous concepts. The persons referred to in this group are:

a) Pensioner and retirees; or that is those who live exclusively on a pension or retirement payments. They should always be written down even if they do domestics chores in their home.

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b) Rentiers; or those persons who draw investments from any origin and live exclusively from them. They should always be written down even if they do domestic labors in their home.

c) Persons interned in institutions; who are residents in jails, hospitals, convents, asylums, etc., permanently. Temporary interned (or that is who are going to remain there less then a year) who have an occupation, which they are not doing because of being interned occasionally in the institution should not be included among these; such persons should be classified as "Employed".

Other persons; includes persons such as blind, beggars, paralytics, etc. always who do not have any occupation, nor are interned in institutions.

When a person should be included in this group, it is necessary to specify, writing down that which corresponds to concepts a), b), c) and d).