Section 3: Details of persons in the household
[Questions 21-25 were asked of long form respondents' age 10+.]
23. Was [the respondent] engaged in productive activity during most of the last 12 months?
If "yes," record 01. If "no," code main reason.
[] 1 Engaged in productive activity
[] 2 Unemployed with work experience
[] 3 Unemployed without work experience
[] 4 Student/training
[] 5 Homemaking
[] 6 Disabled
[] 7 Injury/illness
[] 8 Too young
[] 9 Old age/pensioner/remittance
[] 10 Begging
[] 11 Other
Question 21 - 24:- Economic Activity
In this section the enumerators collect data regarding the economic activities and indicators of unemployment characteristics during the last seven days and the last twelve months prior to the date of enumeration.
Question 23:- Was [the respondent] engaged in productive activity during most of the last 12 months? If not what was the main reason?
The last 12 months means the day before the enumerator reached the respondents house back to 12 months (one year or 52 weeks before the enumeration date).Suppose that the enumerator reached the household on 2 June 2007, then the last 12 month covers the period between 2 June 2006 and 1 June 2007. Thus, every members of the household aged 10 years and above were asked whether they were engaged in or not in productive activity for most of the last 12 months prior to the date of enumeration. If the respondent(s) engaged in the productive activities, then mark (shade) the space corresponding to code 1. If not, shade any one of the choice from code 2 - 11 as given by the respondent.
NB: The definition and explanation given for productive activity in question 21 is also applicable here. The difference is only the reference period. So, enumerators should take it into considerations.
What do we mean by most of the last 12 months?
A person is to be classified as most of the last 12 months active (engaged in productive activity) usually if he/she has been economically active (engaged in productive activity) for more than 6 months or 26 weeks or above during the last 12 months. The above clarification is general definition/ concept. But engagement in productive activity for most of the last 12 months depends on the type and nature of activity they were involved and vary from country to country. The following three examples elaborate how most of the last 12 months are applicable.
a) If a person is engaged in agriculture, he/she was decided to consider him/her as being engaged in economic activity during most of the last 12 months if he/she has worked during most of the main agricultural seasons of the reference year in that area/ locality.
For example
Suppose that the main agricultural season for a particular area is 8 months. A person in this particular area is said to be engaged in most of the last 12 months if he/she has worked for 4 months and more. Agricultural season includes the main and the "Belg" Season and the time from preparing the land to harvesting (seeding, ploughing, sawing, weeding, harvesting and collecting).
b) If a person is engaged in other agricultural activity, like livestock, poultry, cattle rearing... etc. for 6 months or more in the last 12 months, then that person is considered as he is engaged for most of the last 12 months.
c) Those who are working in rural or urban areas of the country engaged either non-agricultural sectors like, trade, weaving, something Government organization etc...., if they were worked for more than 6 months and above in the last 12 months , then these people were at work for most of the last 12 months.
Based on the above three explanations every member of the household aged 10 years and above were asked whether they engaged in productive activities or not in the last 12 months, then shade/mark the response accordingly the codes (1 -11) listed below.
-Engaged in productive activity:- if he/she was engaged in productive/ economic active or employed during most of the last 12 months.
-Unemployed with work experience:-Even though these people had a job some time before a year but due to lack of job they were not engaged in any productive activity during most of the last 12 months. This people may seek or may not to get jobs. But if opportunity comes, they were ready to work.
-Unemployed without work experience:- These people were not engaged in productive activity during most of the last 12 months and they have no job before 12 months and they may or may not seek to get a job during the reference time. If opportunity comes, they are ready to work.
-Student/ Training:- The category includes all persons, aged 10 years and above who, during most of the last 12 months do not engaged in productive activity due to attending school/training during day time. But those students who engaged in productive activity during most of the last 12 months are not included in this code
-Homemaking:- All persons, male or female, who are aged 10 years and above, and who, during most of the last 12 months were not engaged in productive activity due to domestic activities like preparing food for family,...etc. For example, housemaid. It is important to note that those persons may or may not engage in economic activity during the last 12 months.
-Disabled:- These persons were not working in the economic activity most of the last 12 months because of their disability or handicap ness.
Note:- Disabled or handicapped persons who were engaged in productive activity (in Que.21) should not be included here.
-Injury/ Illness/ mental problem/ retardation:- Those persons who were not working in the economic activities most of the last 12 months because of their injury/ illness.
-Too young:- All persons (male or female) who are aged 10 years and above and who, during most of the last 12 months were not engaged in productive /economic activity because they are too young. For those persons who are aged 15 and above were not included in this code. For those persons who are attending school should be given code 4, rather than code 8
-Old age/ retired/ remittance: These are persons who were not engaged in productive /economic activity during most of the last 12 months because of old age/retired or remittance or renting a house.
Remark: In addition to remittance, pensions and earning money from renting housing if they are engaged in economic activity during most of the last 12 months should not be included here;
-Begging:- Those persons who were not working in the productive activity during most of the last 12 months because they spent their time on begging.
-Others such as delivery/pregnancy....etc.:-Those persons who were not working in the productive activity during most of the last 12 months because of delivery/ pregnancy and were not classified from code 1-10 are grouped here.
Remark: Unemployed students are those students attending school during the night and seeking job and were not engaged in any productive activity during the day should be included either in code 2 or 3.