Employment category (symbols of column 19)
Column number 19: Employment category
This question is designed to find out if the person is an: employer, government employee, private employee, independent worker, or an unpaid family worker. This only refers to the employment listed in column 18.
Employer: Those who operate their own company or who carry out a profession or trade on their own account and who have one or more remunerated employees.
Exceptions:
Government employee: they are functionaries, employees, and laborers who receive a wage or salary from the national treasury, from district or municipal funds, from foreign governments (personnel from embassies or diplomatic missions, etcetera) or from international institutions.
Other employees and laborers: they work for an employer, receiving a wage or salary.
Independent worker: they do not work for an employer, but operate their own company or carry out a profession or trade without having remunerated employees.
Unpaid family worker: Those who work, without pay, for a member of their family, for at least one-third time (2 days per week or 2 hours per day).
The following symbols, also found on the form, should be used for the annotation: