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VII.C. Person age 10 or older
[Questions 1-5 were asked of persons age 10 or older]

Q.3 Does [the respondent] have a permanent job but is temporarily not working during the previous week?

[] 1 Yes (go to block VIII)
[] 2 No

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X. Information on household members

A. Block VII: General information on household members
1. The objective of this block is to record information on items such as sex, age, schooling status, and activities conducted during the past week for every household member, starting with the member with serial number "01" and continuing to the last household member.

2. Method of filling out the form
Circle one of the codes corresponding to the respondent's answer, and then write the code in the box on the right.

D. Block VII. C: Persons age 10 or older

Question 3: Do you have a job/business but were temporarily not working during the past week?

If the answer is "Yes", code 1, go directly to the questions in block VIII.

"Have a job, but temporarily not working" means the respondent has a job but during the past week did not work for reasons such as illness, on leave, awaiting harvest, or on strike. Included in this category are those who have been accepted for work but during the past week had not yet started working.

Example:
Those classified as having a job, but temporarily not working are:

a. Professionals not working because of illness or waiting for the next job, such as puppeteer, masseuse, shaman and singer.
b. Permanent employee, civil servant or private sector employee who are not working due to leave, illness, absence from work, on strike, or on temporary leave due to the company's temporary work stoppage, for example due to equipment break down, shortage of raw material, etc.
c. Farmers who are not working due to illness or waiting for the next activity, such as waiting for harvest or the rains to till the rice fields.