The following questions should be answered only by persons born in 1970 or earlier.

Occupation [Questions 11 to 14]

11. What is his/her main activity? Specify working even if the person is only working seasonally for money or pay or if the person is assisting in the family business or farm without pay. Specify job seeking if persons are looking for work, regardless of whether they were dismissed from their work, or the business closed, or they are seeking their first job. If they do not work and are not seeking work, then, then specify: Are they engaged in household activities in their own home? Is the person a pupil or student? Is he a conscript? Etc. Put an X next to only one answer.

Questions 10-15 should only be completed for persons born in 1970 or before

[Omitted, question 11 as in the form]

178. The enumerated is to be considered (by the Enumerator) as working at the day of the census taking if he has a job that provides his or/and the household's livelihood. That is, that the individual is working in order to:

179. The respondent's work during the census taking may be seasonal so that he may be not working that certain period as in the case of a farmer whose work covers a period of 8 months or a manager of a hotel that is closed during the winter months. [p. 58] These individuals are to be considered as working although due to the nature of their jobs were not working at the time of the census taking.

180. As working are to be considered all individuals having a job as was defined in paragraph 178 but during the census taking were not working due to leave, sickness, accident, weather conditions, strike etc. or just started working (employed a few days before the census taking).

181. The individual assisting in the family business without pay (salary or day's wages) is to be considered as working if he is systematically working i.e. daily (except bank holidays) and at least of 1/3 of the business's usual operating time. If the member of the family is working on the agricultural land in order to be considered as working he will have to be working full time for a period of more than three months per year or more than 90 days of work a year.

But the member of the family working in the family or agricultural land occasionally and for less time that the before mentioned is not to be considered as working and on occasion that is active in the household (household activities).

182. Individuals which even the day before the census taking stopped or lost their work e.g. someone who on Friday the 13th March 1981 got his pension or were dismissed from the shop he were working are not to be considered as working.

Finally, those serving in the Army either as conscripts (draftees) or reserves are to be considered as conscripts and not working even if they were working before their conscription and are to go back when dismissed.

In contrast, all permanent personnel of the armed forces either officers or non-commissioned officers or soldiers are considered as working.

[p. 59]

183. The enumerated is to be considered as job seeker (by the Enumerator) if during the census taking is not working and is seeking work, i.e. taking initiatives towards that end.

In this category are included:


184. In the cases of job seekers the enumerator apart from the fact that they are not working has to find out that they are not only intended to seek work but are making certain efforts to do so and specially for the individuals of case (b).

185. If the respondent is not working or seeking work (as defined before) on the day of the census taking then will be considered as:
Household activities, as in the case of a housewife
or
pupil or student if he is mainly studying
or
conscript serving as conscript or reserve
or finally,
as belonging to any other case when is not working at all or seeking work and has to clarify in this case whether e.g. his main source of likelihood is capital income, or has stopped working due to age, health or any other reasons.