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D - Economic characteristics
(For those 10 years of age and older)
[Questions 15 to 19 are asked of persons age 10+ years old]


17. Branch of activity

What kind of activity does the enterprise, establishment, factory, workshop, service, etc., where you work or worked for the last time? ____

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D. Economic characteristics (for person aged ten years or older)

Ask questions 15-19 only for those aged ten (10) years or older.

Question 17: branch of activity

1. How to ask the question:

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Ask, "What is the activity of the enterprise, company, factory, workshop, service, etc. where you are or were employed?"

2. How to record the information:
Write in the space provided the principal activity of the farm or establishment (manufacturing, service, etc.) in which the person performed the work declared in question 16.

Do not use general terms such as factory, ranch, workshop, etc. when you record the information. Do not write the name of the company or enterprise, such as Santa Inés Factory, The Artisan, etc., except if it is a government institution. The following examples illustrate this point:

[The original document includes a table below.]

[Column headings:]
(A) Incorrect answer for branch of activity
(B) Correct answer for branch of activity

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: Santa Luisa farm
Correct answer for branch of activity: raising and finishing beef cattle.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: "my" store
Correct answer for branch of activity: grocery sales.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: stall 13 in the central market
Correct answer for branch of activity: fruit and vegetable sales.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: Aviateca
Correct answer for branch of activity: air transport of passengers and cargo.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: Guastatoya
Correct answer for branch of activity: ground transport of passengers and cargo.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: dress-making shop
Correct answer for branch of activity: manufacture of women's dresses.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: factory
Correct answer for branch of activity: shirt factory.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: workshop
Correct answer for branch of activity: radio repair.

Incorrect answer for branch of activity: estate
Correct answer for branch of activity: coffee farm.

3. Example:
[This box contains question 17 of the section VI, "people in the census household."]