Section 3: Details of persons in the household
[Questions 21-25 were asked of long form respondents' age 10+.]
24. What was [the respondent]'s employment status in the main job?
[] 1 Employee - government
[] 2 Employee - government parastatal
[] 3 Employee - private organization
[] 4 Employee - NGO/international org.
[] 5 Employee - Domestic
[] 6 Employee ? Others
[] 7 Self employed
[] 8 Unpaid family worker
[] 9 Apprentice
[] 10 Member of cooperative
[] 11 Employer
[] 12 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 24:- What was [the respondent's] employment status in the main job?
This question is asked for those who answered code 1 or 2 in question 23 (who has engaged in economic activity for most of the last 12 month and unemployed with work experience). The main activity refers to what a person has been doing for the longest period within the last 12 months.
Note: Employment status for unemployed persons with work experience is the status of the main job just before they left their work. Before filling the status, one has to understand well the following list and explanation of employment status.
1 = Government employee:-This category includes those who, for most of the last 12 months worked on permanent or contractual basis, and paid on daily or weekly bases, and were paid from the government institutions such as hospitals, schools, defense forces....etc.
2 = Parastatal employee:-This category include those who for most of the last 12 months worked for government parastatal, and paid on permanent, contract, weekly or daily basis. These categories include government factories, state farms, etc. The parastatal may be fully or partly owned by the Government.
3 = Private employee:-These include those who, for most of the last 12 months, worked for a private employer and were paid either wages, salary in cash or in kind by the employer. The employments may be permanent or contract. The employer may pay them monthly, fortnightly, weekly, or daily.
4 = NGO's employee (including local and International non government Organizations.) Those include who for most of the last 12 months, worked for NGOs, International organization (UN). They were paid on monthly, weekly, daily or hourly basis. The terms of employment may be permanent or contract.
5 = Domestic employee:-These include maidservants, guards of the house, drivers...etc., who for most of the last 12 months, worked for private household. They were paid in cash or in kind. Their main job is preparing food, fetching water, washing cloth, cleaning the house for private households, etc.
6 = Other employee:-For most of the last 12 months they worked for non-profitable organizations such as churches, mosques, etc.
7 = Self-employed:-These are own-account workers who operate their own economic enterprise or engage independently in a profession or trade, and hire no employees. They worked a productive activity for most of the last 12 months in their enterprise.
8 = Unpaid family workers:-Those members of household (living in the same household) who worked for most of the last 12 months without pay for families.
9 = Apprentice:-These persons were the new entrants to the labour force, they may or may not trained in some specific field of study. They may be paid or not, who are practicing during most of the last 12 months in the productive activities.
10 = Members of co-operative:-Who is an active member of a producers' co-operative and worked for most of the last 12 months. But those of the employees of the cooperatives should be included under code 3.
11 = Employer:-A person who operates his or her own economic enterprise or engaged independently in a profession or trade, and hires one or more employees during most of the last 12 months. This person may or may not participate in the production processes.
12 = Other (Specify):-For those whose employment status is different from the above mentioned (7-11) and who worked for most the last 12 months are grouped in this code (code 12).