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For codes 1 or 2 in column 23
[Questions 24-27 were asked of persons who are employed]


25. Main activity of the work place ________

Name of the organization, for government organizations, and Islamic Revolution institutions

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22. Working status, column 23
Fill this column based on the following directions for all the members of the household who are 10 years old and above and leave it blank for the rest of them. To define an individual's working status, you should know the definition of work.
Work: the part of economic activities (physical or intellectual), the purpose of which is to gain profits (cash or non-cash) for the goal of producing goods or demonstrating service.
People who work are distributed in two major groups; freelance (they work for themselves) and salaried (they get paid in exchange for their work). Pay attention to the following:
The following people's activities are also considered as work:
- Individuals who work for one of the household members without earning an income (working for free for family). These people are usually women and teenagers who help other members of the family for free in activities such as farming, animal husbandry, carpet weaving, etc.
- Individuals serving in the military service.
- Individuals who serve in the Basij militia and earn money from it.
- Individuals who work at their residence in order to earn money, such as carpet weaving, sewing, hairdressing, typing, tutoring, fixing small electronics, baby-sitting, etc.
- Individuals who are occupied with activities like carpet weaving and sewing in order to produce durable goods for their own consumption.
- Individuals who are building, fixing or redecorating their own residence.
- Individuals who are interning and are involved directly in the production of goods and service, whether it is for exchange of money or not.
- Women or men who are occupied with activities such as farming, gardening, animal husbandry, fishing, etc.

The following activities are not considered as work:
- Unpaid activities at home for other members of the household like cooking, house holding, taking care of children, etc., which are mostly done by women.
- Social volunteering services at charities and Basij, etc.
- Small house maintenances such as faucets and valves, fixing windows and small electronics.
- Investing in economical activities without participating in management or actual operations, such as the stock exchange or investing money in companies.


23. Occupation, Industry, "Employment status", Columns 24, 25 and 26
Fill these columns for any 10 years old and above member of the household who have worked in the last 7 days, or have a job but have not worked in the past 7 days for specific reasons (codes 1 and 2 in column 23) and leave it blank for other members.
Note:

- For those who have a job but have not worked in the past 7 days (temporarily absent, code 2 in column 23), fill these columns based on the usual job of the person.
- For those who have worked in another field other than their usual job in the past 7 days (code 1 in column 23), fill these columns based on the person's field of work in the last 7 days.
- For those who have worked in more than one field in the past 7 days, fill these columns based on what they give you as their main job. If the respondent fails to indicate the main job, consider the one they have allocated more time to during the past week, and if the timing was even for all the jobs, consider the one that they have more work experience in.


23.2. Industry, Column 25
For those who received code 1 or 2 in column 23, define the financial activity of the work place or the related activity to the job and write it down in this column.
Note that all the mentioned activities in response to this question will be coded based on international standard categorization. Therefore, it is necessary to define people's main activity of the work place based on the following explanations and write it out.

- Write the main activity of the work place in a manner that shows exactly the activity of that place and avoid writing general titles such as department store, store, office, company, factory, etc., because these titles do not specify what is sold in the store, what the activity of the office or company is and what is produced in the factory.
- For those who work in ministries, organizations, institutions, public associations and Islamic revolution foundations, in case the name of the work place expresses the activity, put down the name of the organization, institution or foundation in this column; such as ministry of agriculture, department of education, department of ports and inland water transport, elementary school, Imam Khomeini's Relief Foundation, etc. Otherwise, in addition to the name of the work place, include the explanation of the main activity in parenthesis; such as Tavanir company (production and distribution of energy), Aseman company (airline services), Iran Tanker (transporting goods), etc.
- For those who have a contract with the private sector (human and legal entities) but work in public institutions, municipalities, etc., indicate their main activity of the work place as that of the human and legal entity and write in column 25.
- In some cases, their activities are such that they do not have a permanent work place, like construction works, taxi driving, peddling, etc. In these cases, write down the name of the activity they are occupied with as the main activity of work place, such as construction, taxi driving, peddling, etc.
- For wholesale trades, include the word "wholesale" along with the name of the sold good.
- In importing and exporting goods related activities, make sure to mention the words "import" and "export" along with the name of the good.
- For activities related to "production" or "maintenance" of a good, make sure to mention the word "production" or "maintenance" along with the main activity of the work place, because the production and maintenance of some goods each have their individual codes, such as fixing computers and producing computers. In some cases that the production and maintenance are completed together, put the phrase "production and maintenance" with the name of the good, such as tractor-production and maintenance. See the following examples.


Job title: Hand-made shoemaker
Job code: 7422
Main activity of the work place: Shoe production
Activity code: 1920
Job title: Machine-made shoemaker
Job code: 8266
Main activity of the work place: Shoe production
Activity code: 1920
Job title: Shoe repairing
Job code: 7442
Main activity of the work place: Shoe repair
Activity code: 5262

Write the activity of those working in agriculture and animal husbandry clearly and avoid general names. Since occupation and the main activity of the work place are directly related in this section, it is necessary to include the type of the production activity and the product in the main activity of the work place. Pursue as the following examples.

Job title: Rice cultivation
Job code: 6111
Main activity of the work place: Rice - production
Activity code: 0111

Job title: Rice grinder
Job code: 8273
Main activity of the work place: Rice grinding - rice hulling
Activity code: 1531
Job title: Farmer
Job code: 6111
Main activity of the work place: Planting wheat
Activity code: 0111
Job title: Farmer
Job code: 6111
Main activity of the work place: Cultivation of summer crops
Activity code: 0112
Job title: Farmer
Job code: 6111
Main activity of the work place: Planting provender
Activity code: 0111
Job title: Gardener - horticulturist
Job code: 6113
Main activity of the work place: Cultivating ornamental plants
Activity code: 0112
Job title: Gardener - horticulturist
Job code: 6113
Main activity of the work place: Cultivating damask rose for rose water production
Activity code: 0113
Job title: Gardener - arboriculturist
Job code: 6112
Main activity of the work place: Cultivating fruit trees
Activity code: 0113
Job title: Animal husbandry
Job code: 6121
Main activity of the work place: Raising sheep in industrialized manner - Animal husbandry
Activity code: 0123
Job title: Animal husbandry
Job code: 6121
Main activity of the work place: Raising sheep in traditional manner - Animal husbandry
Activity code: 0124
Job title: Animal husbandry
Job code: 6121
Main activity of the work place: Raising horse - Animal husbandry
Activity code: 0125

For the main activity of the work place of banks and finance and credit institutes, write out the type of activity and avoid the word "bank" by itself. Examples are as follows:

Job title: Accountant
Job code: 2411
Main activity of the work place: Central bank
Activity code: 6511
Job title: Cashier
Job code: 4212
Main activity of the work place: Saderat bank
Activity code: 6512
Job title: Member of the board of directors
Job code: 1410
Main activity of the work place: Ghavvamin finance and credit institute
Activity code: 6513

In many cases, there is a relationship between the main activity of work place and individual's occupation. For instance, a gardener who works in a fruit farm, his job is "fruit-bearing trees' gardener" and his main activity of the work place is "cultivating fruit-bearing trees". Some examples are as follow:

Job title: Shoe repairing
Job code: 7442
Main activity of the work place: Shoe repair
Activity code: 5262
Job title: Machine-made shoemaker
Job code: 8266
Main activity of the work place: Shoe production
Activity code: 1920
Job title: Raising hens and roosters
Job code: 6122
Main activity of the work place: Raising chicken
Activity code: 0126
Job title: Typist
Job code: 4111
Main activity of the work place: Typing and printing company
Activity code: 7497
Job title: Hand-made carpet weaver
Job code: 7501
Main activity of the work place: Carpet weaving
Activity code: 1724
Job title: Machine-made carpet weaver
Job code: 8262
Main activity of the work place: Machine-made carpet - production
Activity code: 1726
Job title: Farmer
Job code: 6111
Main activity of the work place: Planting wheat
Activity code: 0111
Job title: Shepherd - simple worker
Job code: 9211
Main activity of the work place: Raising sheep
Activity code: 0124
Job title: Florist
Job code: 6113
Main activity of the work place: Floriculture
Activity code: 0112
Job title: Elementary teacher
Job code: 2331
Main activity of the work place: Elementary school
Activity code: 8012
Job title: Veterinarian
Job code: 2223
Main activity of the work place: Veterinary
Activity code: 8520
Job title: Dentist
Job code: 2222
Main activity of the work place: Dentistry
Activity code: 8514
Job title: Branch manager
Job code: 1427
Main activity of the work place: Iran Melli bank
Activity code: 6512
Job title: Bus driver
Job code: 8323
Main activity of the work place: Transporting passengers with public transit
Activity code: 6021
Job title: Military service
Job code: 0112
Main activity of the work place: Garrison
Activity code: 7522
Job title: Military (personnel)
Job code: 0111
Main activity of the work place: Ministry of defense
Activity code: 7522
Job title: Disciplinary (personnel)
Job code: 5162
Main activity of the work place: Police station
Activity code: 7523
Job title: General or professional surgeon
Job code: 2221
Main activity of the work place: Shohada hospital
Activity code: 8511

However, it is possible that there are no relations between the occupation and the main activity of the work place. For example, someone who works as a servitor in the South Khorasan's government office, his occupation is "servitor" and the main activity of the work place is "government office". Some examples are provided as follows:

Job title: Security
Job code: 9152
Main activity of the work place: Tehran's water and sewer department
Activity code: 4100
Job title: Operator
Job code: 4223
Main activity of the work place: Hotel
Activity code: 5511
Job title: Teller
Job code: 4211
Main activity of the work place: Carpet - wholesale
Activity code: 5177
Job title: Legal consultant
Job code: 2429
Main activity of the work place: Rey's concrete factory
Activity code: 2694
Job title: Topographer - technician
Job code: 3112
Main activity of the work place: State's planning and management department
Activity code: 7511
Job title: Cartographer
Job code: 3118
Main activity of the work place: Municipality
Activity code: 7511
Job title: Typist
Job code: 4111
Main activity of the work place: Statistical center of Iran
Activity code: 7511
Job title: Janitor
Job code: 9141
Main activity of the work place: Printing - house
Activity code: 2221
Job title: Janitor
Job code: 4142
Main activity of the work place: Car factory
Activity code: 3410
Job title: Cook
Job code: 5122
Main activity of the work place: Ministry of foreign affairs
Activity code: 7521
Job title: Tax collector
Job code: 4215
Main activity of the work place: Fruits - wholesale
Activity code: 5126
Job title: Warehousing
Job code: 4134
Main activity of the work place: Textile - wholesale
Activity code: 5161
Job title: Accountant
Job code: 3435
Main activity of the work place: Central office of lead quarry
Activity code: 9600
Job title: Servitor
Job code: 5123
Main activity of the work place: Government's office
Activity code: 7511