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Only for those 12 years of age and older
[Applies to items 14 through 18]


X. Economic Characteristics


(18) Occupational category or employment status

Owner/boss
Own-account worker
Employee
Salaried worker
Unpaid worker
Other
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Column 18: Employment status. Write down one of the 6 categories specified below, for each of the people who provided data en columns 16 and 17:

a) Owner. For any person who runs their own company or business and who has one or more paid workers;

b) Own-Account. For any person who performs an activity, profession or trade independently and who doesn't have any paid workers in their charge;

c) Employee. For any person who generally does an intellectual or administrative job and receives a twice-monthly or monthly salary;

d) Wage-earner. For the person who does manual labor and receives a wage, daily or monthly, as in the case of a day-laborer, manual laborer, or unskilled laborer;

e) Unpaid. For any person who doesn't receive a salary or wage, paid either monetarily or in kind [p. 22], as in the case of apprentices or an unpaid relative.

f) Other. For any person who can't be classified in one of the previous categories, as in the case of members of religious organizations.