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23. What was the position or job category of the work indicated?
Read the possible answers in order and when you receive and answer, mark the corresponding box.

[ ] 1 Owner or active partner
[ ] 2 Self-employed
Employee or salaried worker:

[ ] 3 Of the municipality or provincial council
[ ] 4 Of the State
[ ] 5 Of the private sector

[ ] 6 Unpaid family worker
[ ] 9 Don't know

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Question 23.- What was your position or status in the occupation that you indicated?

[There is a picture of question 23 from this section of the enumeration form.]

The purpose of this question is to determine the work relationship that each person has in the job, activity, or business that they indicated in question 22.

Owner.- This the person who directs their own company or business or who practices a profession or trade and has one or more paid employees. Example: factory owner, owner of a sewing shop, etc.

Active partner.- Is a person who contributes by their work or by their work and capital in a given company. Example: partner in a company who contributes capital.

Own-account.- Is a person who runs their own company or business, profession or trade, but doesn't have employees. Example: peddler, seamstress, attorney who practices his profession without a female secretary, etc.

Employee or wage-earner.- Is any person who received compensation in the form of a wage, salary, daily wage, piecework pay, for work performed.


If the person being enumerated works for the municipality or the provincial Council, mark box 3.

[There is a drawing of a street cleaner with box 3 checked.]

If the person being enumerated works in a public office, mark box 4, of the State.

If they work in a company, business, industry or other private [entity], mark box 5, of the Private Sector.


Unpaid family worker.- Is a person who performs an unpaid occupation in a family member's company, plot of land, or business. Example: the wife who works in her husband's supply store, etc., without receiving any compensation.