Question 15: Are you presently working as?
Home workers indicate either "other wage earner" or "skilled worker" in accordance with the activity pursued. Skilled workers also include journeymen.
Trainees and improvers are considered apprentices.
Tradesmen/women working from home, work agents or persons having a contract for work, and labor should mark "self-employed".
Question 17: What kind of activity, occupation, or profession do you perform?
Do not enter here the completed level of vocational education/training or the rank of your position, but rather state as precisely as possible the actual occupation performed or the activity pursued at present -- e.g., building mechanic (not mechanic), heating fitter (not fitter), long-distance truck driver (not driver), balance clerk or machine accountant (not bookkeeper), electrical engineer (not engineer), pediatrician (not doctor), short hand typist (not employee), post office clerk (not civil servant), soldier doing basic military services, professional soldier, soldier on a temporary basis (not soldier). Persons doing civilian alternative service please indicate "civilian service". Apprentices should enter the profession/occupation they are trained in.
Question 18: Do you pursue some additional economic activity?
This includes all further activities (also assisting in the establishment of a family member) which -- even if only occasionally -- are performed at the present -- e.g., part-time activity of a mechanic on his own supplementary income agriculture holding. Work in own household is, however, not considered additional economic activity.
For persons between 15 and 65 years of age
[Questions 9-11 were asked of persons between 15 and 65 years]
If you have completed education at a school/university of general/vocational education:
9. What is the highest level of general education you have completed?
[] 2 Intermediate school or equivalent (e.g., completed 10th grade)
[] 3 High school qualifying for higher education (final high school exam) or qualifying for vocational education
10a. What is the highest level at a vocational school or a university you have completed?
[] Advanced full-time vocational school
[] Higher technical college (engineering school, vocational college)
[] Institution of higher education (including teacher training)
For economically active persons
[Questions 15-18 were asked of economically active persons.]
15. Are you presently working as:
[] 2 Other wage earner
[] 3 Salaried employee
[] 4 Apprentice
[] 5 Official (3), judge, soldier, person doing civilian alternative service
[] 6 Self-employed, employing paid labor
[] 7 Self-employed, without paid labor
[] 8 Assistant family member
(3) = Also applicants for civil service
17. What kind of activity, occupation/profession do you perform? ________
18. If you pursue some additional economic activity, is it:
[] 2 Non-agricultural activity