17. Occupational category
Which category or position did you hold in the principal occupation indicated (question number 15)?
[] 1 Owner or employer
[] 2 Own-account
[] 3 Salaried or waged employee
[] 4 Unpaid family worker
[] 9 Unknown
Question #17: Employment status
This question is only presented to those who declared an occupation in question 15.
What category or position did the person hold in the principal occupation indicated?
(question 15)
The different alternatives are then carefully read, one by one, until the informant classifies the person correctly.
The definition of each alternative should be taken into account.
Own-account: Those who work independently, do not have remunerated employees, and who are not employees of anyone else. The own-account worker can count on the help of family workers and can work alone or association with others.
Employee with salary or wage: Those who work for a public or private employer and who receive, in exchange, a wage, salary, commission, or pay in kind.
Unpaid family worker: Those who carry out an unpaid occupation in an establishment run by a relative who lives in the same household. Unpaid family workers work at least one-third of the time.
An "X" is used to mark one of the alternatives provided on the census form.
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c. Examples:
[These instructions refer to a graph of question 17 on the census form]