22. Secondary economic activity
[For all codes 1 through 8 in column 16]
In terms of contribution to income or subsistence, what was the second most important economic activity of this individual over the last year?
Enter code from the list below
[] 01 None
Farming (growing crops)
[] 02 Unpaid employment (self-employed or employed in family enterprise)
[] 03 Paid employment (wage laborer)
Livestock farming
[] 04 Unpaid employment (self-employed or employed in family enterprise)
[] 05 Paid employment (wage laborer)
Other activities
[] 06 Fishing
[] 07 Other household-based production or services
[] 08 Construction
[] 09 Wholesale or retail trade
[] 10 Transport
[] 11 Other paid employment (services like teaching, cooking, child care, medical, etc.)
Column 22: Secondary Economic Activity
106. This column has to be filled in for all persons with one of the Codes 1 to 8 in Col. 16. The purpose of this column is to find out whether the person who was mainly economically active or inactive last year had a second job or a secondary economic activity last year which gave him/her additional income or some income in cash or kind.
Please note that the activity recorded in this column constitutes the secondary activity in the case of those who were mainly employed last year (Code 1 in Column 16). In respect of others (Codes 2 to 8 in Column 16) it constitutes their marginal activity last year.
A commune chief (or village chief) might have also participated in work in his own farm for some time. His/her main activity is commune administration (or village administration) and secondary activity is unpaid employment in farming. A woman who was a home maker most of the time (Code 4 in Col. 16) could have assisted in farming as an unpaid family worker in her spare time. Her secondary economic activity is unpaid employment in farming. A girl might have been mainly a student. You would have given her Code 5 in Col. 16. To earn some money she might work in a house as a maid during her spare time. Her secondary economic activity is maid. A youth who was studying in school might work as a security guard in the night and earn money. His secondary activity is security guard. You have to accept whatever is returned as the person's secondary economic activity.
106.1 If a person had more than one secondary economic activity during last year you have to ascertain in which job he/she spent more time and that job should be considered as his/her secondary economic activity. For example a person whose main activity last year was farming might have worked as
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a seller of fruits for some time and as a construction worker some other time. You should ask the person to tell in which he/she spent more time. That constitutes his/her secondary activity. It is not necessary that every person should have had a secondary economic activity. Hence some respondents may answer "No" to this question.
106.2 Having ascertained the information, you have to record the answer in terms of a code from the list of codes for Col. 22 given below the column. If the person says he had no secondary job or economic activity record Code 01 (None).
106.3 Give Code 02 if he/she had worked additionally in farming (i.e. cultivation) without receiving any payment. Code 03 has to be given if he/she was a wage earner working in a farm. Code 04 should be given for a person with unpaid employment in animal rearing/production (cattle, pigs, poultry etc.). Code 5 should be given for one in paid employment in animal rearing/production. Code 6 will be given for one in fishing (inland or marine).
106.4 Code 07 will be given for a person who had worked or rendered service in any other household based industry producing or servicing any good (either unpaid and paid in cash or kind). Examples are: weaving, pottery, stitching, processing food articles or food items for sale, processing corn and other food crops, drying fish for sale, etc. which are carried out at home in which mostly household members are engaged. In rural areas this may be done outside the residence of the household also for want of space, e.g. courtyard.
106.5 Code 08 will be given for one in construction activities (buildings, structures, bridges, roads, paddy dikes, etc.). Code 09 has to be given for any wholesale or retail trade run within or outside the household. Code 10 is for a worker in Transport services. Examples of this are cyclo drivers, moto dops, Tuk-Tuk drivers etc. Code 11 is intended for all other paid employment (other than household-based employment).
106.8 Please note that the secondary economic activity has to be recorded in Col. 22 only if it is a second job or economic activity. For instance, if a person was cultivating in his farm and that was his main activity last year and he did not get any supplementary income (cash or kind) from any other economic activity, he did not have a secondary economic activity and code to be given is 01.