21. Last week, at your place of employment did you work as:

Question 21: Last week, at your place of employment did you work as:
Option 7 includes all people not included in the categories above.

1. Employer: A person who works in his/her own company or business or who is self-employed in a profession or trade and has one or more paid workers under his/her responsibility.

Example: A certified public accountant who is in charge of two (2) paid accounting assistants.

2. Independent or self-employed worker: A person who works in his/her own business or is self-employed in a profession or trade and has no paid employees. Example: poster painter, door-to-door fruit salesperson.

3. Employee: A person who performs predominantly an intellectual occupation; works in an institution, organization, private or state-owned company, for a biweekly or monthly remuneration in the form of salary, commission, payment in kind, among others. Example: collector in a commercial store, a professional working for an institution or company.

4. Laborer: A person who performs predominantly a manual occupation; works in a private or state-owned company or business, for weekly, biweekly or daily remuneration in the form of salary, piecework, commission. Example: sneaker factory worker, mason's helper.

5. Worker in a family member's business: A person who works without compensation in a family business or enterprise run by a family member living in the same household or outside the household. Examples: in his/her sister's winery, his/her grandfather's farm, his/her brother's restaurant.

6. Domestic worker: A person who provides paid services in a private housing unit. These services are referred to specific household tasks such as laundress, cook, housekeeper, butler, chauffeur, or others.