Occupational situation in the month before the census

25. Inactive population ____

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 25: Inactive population

For persons who are seven years old or older and had not worked nor had not look for it during the period from March 17th to April 17th, 1964 (which would be those who answered "no" in the questions 19 and 20), you should note the reason for which the person is considered as part of the inactive population. For example: housework, student (who dedicates all of his or her time to studying), retired, pensioned, rent collector, child, elderly, ill, blind, deaf-mute, paralyzed, mentally ill, crazy, without legs, etc.

In this question, you will write "housework" for all of those persons who remain in their own houses doing household duties not related to a business or company (guest house, boarding house, dining room, etc.) and did not receive payment for this.

The student who simultaneously works and studies should be considered among the active population, needing to ask questions 21 to 24, omitting number 25.

You will note as "ill" that person who for this motive did work nor looked for a job during the period from March 17th to April 17th, 1964, nor was his or her job reserved during this time. If his or her work was reserved, you should ask questions 21 to 24, inclusive. The same criteria should be applied when the person had been a prisoner during the four reference weeks.

When the person did not work nor looked for a job for the cause of a physical impediment, that impediment or defect should be written: blind, deaf-mute, missing a hand or arm, etc. When those persons have been rehabilitated, which means that they perform an economic activity, they should be taken among the active population, giving the occupation and branch of economic activity that they practiced. It is of interest for the National Committee Pro-Rehabilitation of Injured to take a count of the population that having physical defects have been rehabilitated in the country, so it is necessary that the enumerator make a special notation in each of these cases, indicating in the space for "observations" that this is the case of a rehabilitated injured person.