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For those who worked or looked for work
[Questions 17-19 were asked of people aged 10 years or older who worked or looked for a job]

Employment category (symbols of column 19)

[] Owner or employer: P
[] Government employee: G
[] Other employees and workers: E
[] Independent worker: TI
[] Family worker: TF
[] Others: O
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Economic characteristics
This section comprises questions 11 to 19 which are asked to persons aged 10 years or older.

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:

a) Someone whose only employees are domestic servants is not considered to be an employer.
b) A salaried manager of a company that is not his or her own is not considered to be an employer.
c) Government personnel who are responsible for other employees are not considered to by employers.

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:

"PE" for employer
"EG" for government employees
"E" for other employees and laborers
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"TI" for self-employed workers
"TF" for family workers
"C" for other not included in the previous five categories