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In strict confidence
Ministry of Economic Planning and Development
Central Statistical Office

Population Census
Mauritius

Night of 1-2 July 1990

For persons aged 12 years and over:

34 Length of service with employer ____

How long has the person worked for his/her present or most recent employer?
Give number of completed years.
If less than a year, give number of complete months.
If less than a month, write 'less than a month'.
Please note that length of service with employer is required and not at your job. Thus for persons in public service give total length of service and not time spent in their present grade.
For self-employed persons give the time during which they have been self-employed.

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Stop at this column [28] if person has never worked. Columns 29 to 34 are for persons who have ever worked. Information is required on the person's work during the past week. If person had more than one job last week, answer for the job at which he/she worked the most hours, if person had no job last week, answer for his/her last job.

Column 34
Length of service with employer
For persons who held a job last week, state the number of completed years they have worked for their present employer. For persons who had no job last week, state the number of completed years they worked for their most recent employer.

For self-employed persons, give the period during which they were self-employed. For persons who worked without pay for a member of the same household or another relative, give the period during which they have operated as unpaid family workers.

If the person worked for less than a year, give the number of completed months. If the period was less than a month, write 'Less than a month'.

Please specify 'years' or 'months' as appropriate; for example. If length of service was 9 years, write '9 years' and not just '9'.

Note that it is the length of service with the employer that is required, and not the time during which the person worked at his/her job.

Thus, for persons in public service, give the total length of service and not the time spent in their present grade or post.

Approved leaves should be included when counting the length of service.
If the person had a work interruption implying a breach of contract with his/her employer, or a resignation from his/her job, then count the length of service from the date of re-employment.