For individuals 10 years of age and older
[Questions 14-23 were asked of persons aged 10 and older.]
18. What occupation, position or job did you do week or the last time you worked?
(If the person never worked, mark the circle "never worked.")
________ (specify the occupation)
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[] 9998 Never worked (Skip to question 23)
19. Where do you work or where did you work the last?
(If the person worked in an establishment, company or institution, write the corresponding name; in the case of one who worked in the street, in the home, or in another family's home, on an agricultural plantation, etc, write what the person states.)
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The objective of this section is to get information about the participation of the population 10 years old or older in economic activities of the country.
The information refers to the week before the Census. This week is defined as the reference week and is understood to be from Sunday to Saturday.
It is recommended that each member of the home respond for themselves. If this is not possible, the head or responsible adult could respond for the youngest, but it is preferable to insist that the adult members, especially if they are working, respond for themselves.
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Principal activity of the person:
The responses obtained in questions 14 to 17 are the basis for classifying the population of 10 years old or older in:
1. Economically Active Population: is understood to be the population 10 years old or older who supplies the available work force for the production of economic goods and services in the country, during the reference week. This population is classified as employed or unemployed.
a) Employed population: covers persons 10 years old or older who during the reference week:
- Have an occupation or job remunerated in money or in kind.
- Have their own business or they work on their own account.
- Work regularly in a business or company of a member of their family even when not drawing a wage or salary ([Contributing] family worker). In this case a [contributing] family worker should have as a minimum 15 hours worked to be considered as such.
- Persons absent from their job temporarily because of sickness or accident, holidays or vacations, strikes, on leave from school or military service, on maternity leave.
- Did not work, but do occasional jobs.
b) Unemployed population: This group is understood to be persons 10 years old or older who during the reference week:
Do not have an occupation or job and are looking for employment.
Looked for work before and waits for news, that is to say, one who has adopted means of looking for remunerated employment or an independent job.
2. Not economically active population: is understood to be retirees or pensioners, students, workers at home or homemakers, rentiers and other conditions.
Question No. 18: What occupation, position or job did you do last week or the last time you worked?
For a person who works you should ask what occupation, trade or job was done last week; if the person has more than one job, write down the occupation of the principal job. Consider as the principal job as the one which produces the largest income.
For a person who answers that they did not work, you should ask what occupation, trade or job they did the last time they worked. Write down in the designed space the principal occupation, the employment or job that they did the last time they worked. If an unemployed person never has worked, but rather is looking for their first employment, mark the corresponding circle and go to question 23. The highest age for these persons is 29 if male and 45 if female, investigate the cause and make the respective observations.
Write down in this question the specific occupation that is done in the job of the enumerated person, avoiding vague or generic terms. Example:
[Below the text is a chart with 2 columns, one called "information" and one called "you should right down".]
Information
Office worker
You should write down
Internal Messenger
Hotel Receptionist
Bank Teller
Executive Secretary
Information
Driver
You should write down
Of a truck
Of a taxi
Of a bus
Of a mule
Information
Mechanic
You should write down
Of cars
Bicycle Assembler
Of diesel engines
Of sewing machines
Of typewriters
Information
Seller
You should write down
Of newspapers
Of lottery, Chances, etc
In clothes department stores,
In a pharmacy
Information
Doctor
You should write down
Psychiatrist
Children's Dental Surgeon
Dermatologist
Pediatrician
Information
Construction Worker
You should write down
Mason Helper
Mosaiquero [construction worker specialized in setting up tile]
Shoveller
Information
Secretary
You should write down
Accountant
Executive
Information
Cutter (Machetero)
You should write down
Gardener: in family house, parks, etc.
In the street: cleaner of patches of land
In their country: farmer