11. Main profession
Indicate the profession or the career that you currently practice
(even if you still only an apprentice or if you work by helping a member of your family in his or her profession). A woman who only takes care of her home will answer "without profession".
Be specific: Examples: mechanic (automobile repairman, clothing maker, carpenter in iron, fitter in central heating, building painter, industrial designer, electrical engineer, wine-grower, driver of heavy loads, shorthand typist, whole-sale drugs, etc.
17. If you are currently without work and if you are looking for some:
[] 2 3 to less than 6 months
[] 3 6 months to less than a year
[] 4 one year or more
[] No
18. If you do not work anymore:
(You are, for example, retired from public service, a retired worker, retired executive, former farmer, retired from business, etc.)
Question 11: Main profession.
Attentively read the explanations and the examples given on the individual forms, as well as the instructions hereafter.
Note:
a) If a profession has been declared on question 11:
- make sure that one of the six boxes of question 13a has been checked, at least box 1 of question 12 has not been;
- make sure that the salaried people (answer 7 of question 13) have answered correctly questions 14a, 14b, or 14c ;
- make sure that question 16 has been correctly filled out (see question 16 page 57): especially make sure that questions 16a, 16b, and 16 are always filled out, even for people who work in an administrative service and especially for government employees.
b) If no profession has been declared for question 11 and if the person concerned is 16 or older:
Refer to questions 17 and 18 to see if there is an answer indicated there.
If none of questions 17 to 18 have received an answer, Make sure that is the real situation of the person concerned and:
- if there is no professional activity, mention in great detail "without profession" on question 11.
- if he currently practices a profession which he would have forgotten to declare it, ask him to answer questions 11 to 16 of his individual form.
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Examples of bad answers not to accept in any situation. [left column] / Remarks [right column]
1) Bad answers because they aren't specific enough.
Employee, worker, building worker, engineer, executive, director / Indicate exactly the job of the person concerned, for example: salesperson at a department store, bank employee, lathe operator, chemical engineer, plasterer, expert forester, business director.
government employee, SNCF employee, EDF employee / For government employees and public service employees, specify the rank or the job, for example: representative of the prefecture, clerk of the PTT, second class stationmaster, driver of a diesel locomotive, EDF dispatcher.
Merchant, industrialist, farmer, entrepreneur, craftsman, administrator / Answer, for example: retail grocer, wholesaler in pharmaceutical products, masonry entrepreneur, residential building director, movie theater employee
2) Bad answers because they are incomplete.
O.S., O.P., Qualified worker, team leader, foreman / These labels indicate the situation in the professional hierarchy, but do not give any information on the individual profession of the person concerned. On the other hand, the following answers are satisfactory:
O.S. (ouvrier specialisé) in rope or yarn winding, textile mill foreman
Question 17: The case of the unemployed and those who are looking for work.
This question concerns all people having or having not already worked, who fulfill the following conditions simultaneously:
a) do not have a job:
b) are actively looking for work.
Do not apply to these people the label "unemployed" which is sometimes judged offensive and which has a slightly different connotation.