Questionnaire Text

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[Population census form]

For persons aged 12 years and over.
(Questions 28 to 33 refer to the person's job or business during the past week. If person had no job last week, answer for his/her last job. If person had more than one job last week, answer for the job at which he/she worked the most hours.)

32. Employment status _

Insert as appropriate:

[] SEE - self-employed with employees
[] SEW - self-employed without employees
[] FW - working without pay for spouse or other relative in his / her farm or business
[] A - apprentice / trainee with or without pay
[] EM - employee paid by day, week, fortnight, job
[] PC - member of producers' cooperative
[] OTHER - other, specify ____
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7. Instructions on how to fill in the census form

[Columns 28 to 33 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 32 - Employment status
Insert as appropriate:

SEE- for a sell-employed person operating (alone or in partnership) his/her own business, trade, enterprise, farm or professional practice, with the help of one or more paid employees;
SEW - for a self-employed person operating (alone or in partnership) his/her own business, trade, enterprise, farm or professional practice, without the help of paid employees;
FW- for a person who worked without pay in a business, trade, enterprise or farm operated by a member of the same household or another relative. If the person worked for pay, he should be reported as EM or EO as described below;
A- for an apprentice with or without pay;
EM- for an employee paid by the month.
EO- for an employee paid by day, week, fortnight or by the job, even if payment was made at the end of the month. Write EO also for persons who worked for commissions, payments on a piece rate basis or for payments in kind.
PC- for an active member of a producer's co-operative.
OTHER- for a person whose employment status does not fall in any of the above categories; give a full description in such cases.