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Continue only for persons aged 10 years or more
[Questions 13-19 were asked of persons age 10+.]

15. In the last seven days, has the person done any of the following?

If more than one answer is given record main activity.

[] 1 Gardening/fishing for money
[] 2 Gardening/fishing for own use only
[] 3 Business (any type) with paid help
[] 4 Business (any type) without paid help
[] 5 Helping in family business without pay
[] 6 Wage job (including temporary absence)
[] 7 None [continue to Question 18.]
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Economic questions

The economic questions are an important part of the census form. The economic questions for each person over 10 years are in Question 15 to 19.
The census provides the chance for us to find out what kind of work people do. Work that earns some income or helps to support the family, such as growing food, is called "economic activity". Some people are not economically active. On the information collected, community needs can be identified. Better plans can be in place.

Question 15: Economic activity

Q15. In the last seven days, has the person done any of the following?
(If more than one answer is given, record main activity
If code 7 "None": go to question 18.)

[] 1. Gardening/Fishing for money
[] 2. Gardening/Fishing for own use
[] 3. Business (any type) with paid help
[] 4. Business (any type) with no paid help
[] 5. Help in family business with no pay
[] 6. Wage job (include temporary absence)
[] 7. None (Go to Q18).
Who to ask: Ask the head of the household or the person responding.

Get this information for: All persons 10 years and older. That is, all persons born before 9 July 1990. If date of birth is not recorded, use age given in years.

How to ask: "In the last seven days, has the person done any of the following?"

-You must then read out all of the 6 categories, explaining each category if necessary.
-If the person did more than 1 to 6, then you ask which was the main activity in the last 7 days.
How to record: Write one code only in the box provided.

-If the person did not do any of activities 1 to 6, write code 7 in the box.
-When Code 7 is recorded, do not ask Q16a, Q16b, and Q17 but skip straight to Q18.
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What each code means:
Code 1: Gardening/fishing for money.
Use Code 1 if the person did any gardening/agricultural, hunting or fishing activity in the last 7 days and sold some or all of the produce. The activities include growing cash crops such as coffee, tea, cocoa, rubber and oil palm and also producing other things for sale. This includes growing any vegetables, making sago, gathering food, fishing, keeping livestock or hunting wild pigs or other animals for sale.

Code 2: Gardening/fishing for own use only.
Use Code 2 for a person doing any gardening/agricultural, hunting or fishing activities in the last 7 days for their own or family use but not for sale. This is called subsistence.

Code 3: Business (any type) with paid help
Use Code 3 for persons who have a business of any type at all, big or small, which has some paid workers (in pidgin, wokman). The person gets Code 3 if they own the business or partly own it and get a share of the profit. (e.g PMV, trade store, professional practice, or a farm run as a business with paid workers).
Do not use Code 3 if he/she is paid a regular wage by the business. Wage earners are Code 6. Code 3 is used only for people who take all or part of the profit from a business.
A Code 3 business includes professional practices (e.g. private doctor, lawyer) as well as very informal activities such as selling crops or betel nut, as long as they employ one or more workers.

Code 4: Business (any type) with unpaid help
Use Code 4 is for the owner or part-owner of any type of business which does not have any paid workers. Family members may help without payment.
The difference between Code 3 and Code 4 is that a Code 3 business has paid workers but a Code 4 business does not.

Code 5: Helping in family business without pay
Use Code 5 for persons who work in a family business without pay. It is quite common for family members to help businesses such as trade stores. Women and school children often do this activity without pay.
Gardening is not counted as business unless there are also wage workers. Women and children who help in gardens, which are not businesses, get Code 1 or Code 2.

Code 6: Wage job (includes temporary absence)
Use Code 6 for all persons who are employed in a wage or salary job of any kind, including part-time, temporary, or casual work.
Include persons who are temporarily absent from their work due to ill ness, lay-offs, labor disputes, strikes, or were on leave or holiday, even if they did not do to work during the last 7 days.

-All economic activity is to be recorded, even if part-time or only one hour during the week. You should stress to respondents that we want to record all economic activity, even if only for an hour during the week.
-Be alert and ask carefully. If rural households have a garden or a canoe, it is very likely that all active adults will do some economic activity.
-Women are counted as economically active if they do any work, which earns income or helps support the family, such as gardening or helping in the family shop. If they do only household duties, they are not counted as economically active
-Make a special effort to find out if women do any work that could be counted as economic activity.
-Students often do some economic activity, even if they spend most of their time at school. They might work after school and on week-ends in a garden, caring for animals, fishing or helping in a trade store. If they do any economic activity, this must be recorded.
-For persons on leave (or other temporary absence from work), their usual job should be taken as their main activity. For example, a man work at OK Tedi might be visiting his family for a week holiday. He is counted as having a wage job (Code 6).
-Make sure you understand the meaning of all the Codes 1 to 6. Think about what you would write for the people you know.

Notes: Be alert and be sure to skip to question 18 if the person is not economically active (Code 7). You will look silly if you ask people about their occupation (Q16) if they have just told you they do not do any of activities 1 to 6.