18. Do you work or did you work the last time as a . . .
[] 2 Independent or own-account worker?
[] 3 Unpaid family worker?
[] 4 Owner?
[] 5 Member of a production cooperative or settlement (collective agricultural production or asentamientos)?
[For responses 2 - 5,] (go to to question 21)
19. For whom do you or did you work?
[] 2 Government?
[] 3 Cooperative?
[] 4 Family house?
[] 5 Canal Commission?
[] 6 United States Armed Forces?
Questions 15 to 21 should be asked to all persons who were marked in any of the circles 01 to 05 of question 14. Except to persons who answered that they have never worked in question 15.
Question Number 18: Do you work or did you work last time as a:
Before asking this question, observe the responses written down in questions 15 and16, since based on these responses, in some cases you will be able to deduce what circle to mark on this question.
Read the alternatives and mark the corresponding circle, according to the case, for which you keep in mind the following definitions:
Circle 2. Independent or own-account worker: One who runs or has run their own economic company or private business or manages on their own account a profession or office and is not in charge of any remunerated employees. This person can work alone or with associates. Example: Bus driver, Traveling salesperson, Home hairstylist, Shoeshine [person], etc.
Circle 3. Unpaid family worker: a person who works or has worked 15 hours or more a week for any family member in their business, company or farm and does not receive a wage or salary for their work.
Circle 4. Employer (owner): One who runs or has run their own economic business (alone or with associates), or manages on their own account a profession, office, that always is in charge of one or more employees who receive salaries.
Circle 5. Member or a Production Cooperative or Settlement: is a person who works or has worked for a Cooperative or a Farmer's Settlement and receives an income proportional to the sale of the product.
Considering that it may prove to be too simple to determine who is an Employee or salary earner (Of the Government, Private Company, Canal Commission, etc.) let us analyze the rest of the occupational categories and the following cases a little more:
b. You will be able to determine the category of occupation of the persons in some cases, by means of question 15 (occupation). Example: a shoe shiner, traveling salesperson, car washer, scrap seller, newspaper seller and other occupations that persons do in which they logically are not in charge of any employees.
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These persons can be classified automatically as independent or for their own account.
c. Inasmuch as the family worker, you may think that it concerns a person who works in a family house, nevertheless, if you carefully read the definition, it will become clear to you that it concerns a person who works 15 hours or more a week in the business of a family member without receiving a wage or a salary. In this category are included the family members of farmers who work in the same plot of land without receiving payment.
Question Number 19: For whom do you work or did you work?
This question is asked to persons who were marked in circle 1 (employee or salary earner) in question 18. Read the alternatives and mark the corresponding circle in agreement to the response of the person, considering the following definitions:
Circle 2. Government: if a person who works or has worked for the Central or Municipal Government, such as: The Ministry of Housing and Treasury, Government, Offices, in Autonomous or Semi-Autonomous Entities like the Savings Bank, Social Security Fund, Institute for the Formation and Use of Human Resources (IFARHU [in Spanish]), etc. and receives for the work a remuneration in the form of salary or wage. Include in this category the employees of international organisms (Embassies, OAS, UNO, etc.)
Circle 3. Cooperative: if a person works or has worked for a Cooperative of production, of consuming, of savings, etc. or a farmer's settlement.
Circle 4. Family house: if a person works or has worked in a family house and receives for the work remuneration en the form of a salary or wage. Example: domestic employee, gardener, driver, cook, housekeeper, butler, etc.
Circle 5. Canal Commission: if the person works or has worked in the Canal Commission , a company that is in charge of the running and maintaining of the Canal.
Circle 6. United States Armed Forces: if the person works or has worked for the Armed Forces of the United States of America.