Q.3 Main work status
[] 2 Self-employed assisted by family members/temporary workers
[] 3 Employer with permanent workers
[] 4 Worker/employee
[] 5 Family worker
Block VIII: Labor force (Persons age 10 or older)
Question 3: Status of employment of main job
Status of employment is the position of a person in a particular job.
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Status of employment is differentiated as follows:
a. "Self-employed" is work or business in which the person is responsible for the economic risk, and in this effort he/she does not employ any family workers and other workers.
Example:
b. Taxi driver who drives a car at his own risk.
c. Coolies in a market, station or other public places without a specific employer.
b. "Self-employed assisted by family workers or temporary workers" is work or business in which the person is responsible for the risk and is assisted by unpaid family workers or temporary workers.
Example:
b. Travelling salesman assisted by an unpaid employee or assisted by others who are paid only when they work.
c. Farmer who works on farm land assisted by family workers. However, during the harvest the worker may receive some of the harvest (harvest shared or halved, etc.); this worker is not considered a permanent employee. The farmer is classified as self-employed assisted by family worker/temporary worker.
c. "Employer" is work or business in which the person is responsible for the risk and employs at least one paid, permanent worker.
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"Paid, permanent employee" is a person who is employed by another person or an institution/office/company and receives wages/salary on a regular basis whether or not the employer has any work for him/her.
Example:
b. Shoe merchant who employs permanent workers.
d. "Employee/worker" is someone employed by others or an institution/office/company and regularly receives wages/salary in cash or in kind.
e. "Family worker" is someone who works by helping others without receiving wages/salary either in cash or in kind.
Explanation:
Family worker can be:
ii. Not a member of the household of the person he/she assists.
iii. Not a member of the household and not a family member of the person he/she assists.
Example: