27. What did [the respondent] do last week:
[] 2 Did not work, but has a job?
[] 3 Made some product or provided some service for at least one hour?
[] 4 Helped in some way in a business or work of a relative for at least one hour?
[] 5 Did at least one hour of agricultural labor or took care of animals?
[] 6 Is unemployed: If he/she looked for work having worked before and it is available to work?
[] 7 Did not work?
For answers 1-6, skip to question 29.
28. If [the respondent] has not worked:
[] 1 Looked for work for the first time and is available to work?
[] 2 He/she collects rents?
[] 3 He/she is retired or a pensioner?
[] 4 He/she is a student?
[] 5 Does household chores?
[] 6 Prevented from working by a disability?
[] 7 Other?
Skip to question 34.
Step 14: Continue with section 4, information about the population / D: Economic characteristics (annex, pages 41-45)
[A copy of section 4D of the census questionnaire is omitted here.]
Tips:
8. Economic characteristics
[Question 28 is asked of persons who did no work during the week before the census]
Looked for work for the first time and is available to work:
When the person has never worked and in week previous to the census (from the 21st to the 27th of November) is looking for work for the first time and that he/she is available to work.
He/she collects rents:
A person who does not work and receives income that come from the rents of a company or business and/ or rents of buildings, machinery, or dividends that are derived from his/her properties or capital.
He/she is retired or a pensioner:
When the person who does not do any economic activity and receives income originating of a pension or retirement whether by having retired from a company or institution by fulfilling age requirements, years of service, old age, or by permanent incapacity and the established period of service; as well as those who receive a pension for widowhood, or being an orphan.
He/she is a student:
A person who is dedicated exclusively to studying.
Does household chores:
When the person does exclusively domestic chores in his/her own household. For example: The housewives who receive no payment for workings in the home.
Prevented from working by a disability:
That person who by his/her physical, sensorial or mental deficiency is prevented from working.