Occupational situation in the month before the census
20. If the person did not work, did the person look for work during the last four weeks before the census?
These questions should be asked exclusively of the persons who have informed that they are seven years old or older.
Economic characteristics of the population
The questions oriented to find out which were the economic activities of the population (questions 19 to 26) will only be asked of persons who are seven years old or older. Therefore, for every child who is six years old or younger, you should make an X in the respective spaces across the columns.
Questions 19 to 26 are of great significance, and therefore we request that the enumerator pay the greatest attention possible to the instructions that are given on the following pages for filling them in.
The questions contained in this section of the form have a certain relationship to each other, and therefore, if you do not put special care in completing them, you run the risk of obtaining incompatible information that will cause enormous damage to the posterior process to which the form will be subjected.
In general, the research of the economic characteristics of the population will refer not to the day of the census, but to the month previous to the census, which will be from March 17th to April 17th, 1964.
Question 20: If you did not work, did you look for any job in the past four weeks before the census?
As has already been explained, this question should be asked of every person who answered "no" in question 19.
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It is considered that a person looked for work if he or she has been formally trying to obtain employment or start a business. Such is the case of persons who take out advertisements in the newspaper requesting a job, or those who answer requests to employers, who write letters of request or who work at a job as a volunteer (without pay) with the hope of obtaining the necessary experience to get a job in the future.
If the answer to this question is affirmative, continue with questions 21 to 24; but if the answer is negative, as it was question 19, you will immediately pass to question 25 (inactive population) since persons who have answered "no" in questions 19 and 20 are considered inactive population (they do not form part of the labor force.)
To illustrate the procedure of the questions about occupational situation, you will indicated which of the different possibilities can be present in practice for persons who are seven years old or older. [The original document includes a table below.]
[Column headings:]
(A) Question 19
(B) Question 20
(C) Order of the interview
Question 19: yes
Question 20: [question omitted] active person
Order of the interview: You continue with questions 21 to 25 and do not ask question 25.
Question 19: no
Question 20: yes. Active person
Order of the interview: the same as above.
Question 19: no
Question 20: no. Inactive person
Order of the interview: you omit questions 21 to 24, passing immediately to question 25.
For persons six years old or younger, this section of the form (questions 19 to 26) should appear in blank, since the occupational characteristics will only be researched for the population that is seven years old or older.
In the previous table we have not included the case that someone has answered "yes" in questions 19 and 20, since in this case you will considered that the person was employed, independent of whether he or she was simultaneously looking for another job.
Questions 21, 22, and 23 are closely related to each other, and there should be an annotation for each of them for all of the persons who answered "yes" in any of the questions 19 and 20 (worked or looked for a job). The answers that are given for these three questions should correspond to the person' occupation that is informed in question 21, the branch of economic activity (question 22), and the occupational position (question 23) should correspond to the occupation that is informed in question 21.